Out of stock : the warehouse in the history of capitalism / Dara Orenstein.

In Out of Stock, Dara Orenstein delivers a nuanced, ambitious, and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in the history of American commerce and industry: the warehouse, and all its many permutations. She traces the progression from the bonded warehouse of the nineteenth...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Orenstein, Dara (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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.