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This classic study of antebellum Southern society demonstrates how slavery was the bedrock of the region's social order and cultural identity.
In The Political Economy of Slavery, Eugene Genovese argues that slavery gave the South a distinct class structure, political community, economy, ideology, and a set of psychological patterns. As a result, the South grew away from the rest of the nation and became increasingly unstable during the nineteenth...
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When people encounter consumer goods-sugar, clothes, phones-they find little to no information about their origins. The goods will thus remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which they traveled, will remain obscured. In this book, Tad Skotnicki argues that this encounter is an endemic feature of capitalist societies, and one with which consumers have struggled for centuries in the form of activist movements...
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Extrait: "L'Homme naît avec la faculté de recevoir des sensations, d'apercevoir et de distinguer, dans celles qu'il reçoit, les sensations simples dont elles sont composées, de les retenir, de les reconnaître, de les combiner,[...], de comparer entre elles ces combinaisons, de saisir ce qu'elles ont de commun et ce qui les distingue, d'attacher des signes à tous ces objets, pour les reconnaître mieux, et s'en faciliter de nouvelles combinaisons..."...
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'A powerful treatise' - Amelia Gentleman, Guardian
In 2019, over 10,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK. From men working in Sports Direct warehouses for barely any pay, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail bars, we're told that modern slavery is all around us, operating in plain sight.
But is this really slavery, and is it even a new phenomenon? Why has the British Conservative Party called it 'one of...
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The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing slave trade and the enactment of Black codes placed the city's Black women within the rigid confines of a social hierarchy ordered by race and gender. At the Threshold of Liberty reveals how these women--enslaved, fugitive, and free--imagined new identities and...
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"Winner of the 2015 Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" Martin Ruef is the Egan Family Professor of Sociology and director of Markets and Management Studies at Duke University. He is the author of The Entrepreneurial Group (Princeton) and the coauthor of Organizations Evolving and Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations.
An in-depth examination of the economic and social...
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