Out of Stock : The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism / Dara Orenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orenstein, Dara, Author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Warehouses--United States--History.

Warehouses.

Free ports and zones--United States.

Free ports and zones.

Manufacturing industries--United States.

Manufacturing industries.

Trade regulation--United States.

Trade regulation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 century to today's foreign-trade zones, enclaves where goods are processed while simultaneously inside the United States and outside US customs territory. Foreign-trade zones channel jobs to American workers by converting American cities into international ports, and to understand them, Orenstein tells us, we should look at them in the simplest of terms: as warehouses. Going further, Orenstein contends that these zones-nearly 800 of which are scattered across the United States-are emblematic of how warehouses have begun to supplant factories on the terrain of logistics. In the age of Amazon and Walmart, circulation is so crucial to how and where goods are produced that it is increasingly inseparable from production, such that warehouses rank as some of the most pivotal spaces of global capitalism. Drawing from cultural geography, cultural history, and political economy, and vividly documented with photos, ads, maps, and other ephemera, Out of Stock nimbly demonstrates the centrality of warehouses for corporations, workers, cities, and empires.

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226663067

022666306X

OCLC:

1124616923