The devil's milk : a social history of rubber / by John Tully.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tully, John A. (John Andrew)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rubber industry and trade.

Rubber--History.

Rubber.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, rubber is one of a handful of commodities that has played a crucial role in shaping the modern world, and yet, as John Tully shows in this remarkable book, laboring people around the globe have every reason to regard it as "the devil's milk." All the advancements made possible by rubber-industrial machinery

Contents:

""COVER""; ""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""PREFACE: Why a Book on Rubber?""; ""INTRODUCTION: The Muscles and Sinews of Industrial Society""; ""PART ONE: From the sacred essence of life to the muscles and sinews of industrial society""; ""1. Rubber in Mesoamerican Civilizations""; ""2. Rubber in the Industrial Revolution""; ""3. The Dark Side of the Rubber Revolution""; ""PART TWO: Wild rubber: a primitive “mode of extraction�""; ""4. The Amazon Rubber Boom""; ""5. The Lives of the Seringueiros""; ""6. There is No Sin Beyond the Equator""

""7. Heart of Darkness: Rubber and Blood on the Congo""""8. Gutta-Percha, Telegraphs, Imperialism, and Ecology""; ""PART THREE: Monopoly capitalism in Akron""; ""9. “Rubber�s Home Town�""; ""10. The 1913 IWW Strike at Akron""; ""11. Sisters, Brothers, Unite! The Rubber Workers� Union in Akron""; ""PART FOUR: Plantation hevea: agribusiness and imperialism""; ""12. The Triumph of Plantation Hevea""; ""13. The Planters� World""; ""14. The Coolie Diaspora""; ""15. The Coolies� World""; ""16. Coolie Revolts""; ""PART FIVE: Synthetic rubber, war and autarky""

""17. The Long Road to Monowitz""""18. Monowitz: “A Bulwark of Germandom�""; ""19. The Only Way Out Is Up the Chimney""; ""20. The Allied Struggle for Rubber in the Second World War""; ""21. War Is Good for Business""; ""EPILOGUE: Rubber in the Postwar World""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781583672617

1583672613

9781583672600

1583672605

OCLC:

744350487