The devil's milk : a social history of rubber /

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Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." He might well have been describing the long, grim history of rubber. From the early stages of primitive accumulation to the heights of the industrial revolution and beyond,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tully, John A. (John Andrew) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Monthly Review Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Rubber industry and trade.
Caoutchouc > Industrie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Manufacturing.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Rubber industry and trade
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rubber in Mesoamerican civilizations
  • Rubber in the industrial revolution
  • The dark side of the rubber revolution
  • The Amazon rubber boom
  • The lives of the Seringueiros
  • There is no sin beyond the equator
  • Heart of darkness: rubber and blood on the Congo
  • Gutta-Percha, telegraphs, imperialism, and ecology
  • "Rubber's home town"
  • The 1913 IWW strike at Akron
  • Sisters, brothers, unite! The Rubber Workers' Union in Akron
  • The triumph of Plantation Hevea
  • The planters' world
  • The coolie diaspora
  • The coolies' world
  • Coolie revolts
  • The long road to Monowitz
  • Monowitz: "a bulwark of Germandom"
  • The only way out is up the chimney
  • The allied struggle for rubber in the Second World War
  • War is good for business.

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