Out of Stock
The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism
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Out of Stock
The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism
In Out of Stock, Dara Orenstein delivers an ambitious and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in American commerce and industry: the warehouse. She traces the progression from the nineteenth century’s bonded warehouses to today’s foreign-trade zones, enclaves where goods can be simultaneously on US soil and off US customs territory. Orenstein contends that these zones—nearly 800 of which are scattered across the country—are emblematic of why warehouses have begun to supplant factories in the age of Amazon and Walmart. Circulation is so crucial to the logistics of how and where goods are made that it is increasingly inseparable from production, to the point that warehouses are now some of the most pivotal spaces of global capitalism. Drawing from cultural geography, cultural history, and political economy, Out of Stock nimbly demonstrates the centrality of warehouses for corporations, workers, cities, and empires.
352 pages | 93 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2019
Architecture: American Architecture
Economics and Business: Economics--History
Geography: Economic Geography
History: American History, History of Ideas
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Table of Contents
Introduction: “My Brain Hurt Like a Warehouse”
Chapter One: Flow, or Fixity in Motion: The Warehouse
Chapter Two: Security and Securitization: The Bonded Warehouse
Chapter Three: Imperium in Imperio: The Freihafen, the Zollverein, and the Empire of Logistics
Chapter Four: What We Talk about When We Talk about Manufacturing: The Foreign-Trade Zone
Chapter Five: “Plant Your Plant at a Home Away from Home, at Home”: The Subzone
Conclusion: Free Shipping!
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Chapter One: Flow, or Fixity in Motion: The Warehouse
Chapter Two: Security and Securitization: The Bonded Warehouse
Chapter Three: Imperium in Imperio: The Freihafen, the Zollverein, and the Empire of Logistics
Chapter Four: What We Talk about When We Talk about Manufacturing: The Foreign-Trade Zone
Chapter Five: “Plant Your Plant at a Home Away from Home, at Home”: The Subzone
Conclusion: Free Shipping!
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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