Capitalism’s Hidden Worlds

Edited by Kenneth Lipartito and Lisa Jacobson

Capitalism's Hidden Worlds examines economic activities that occur in the concealed corners of the formal economy. Challenging common conceptions of capitalism as a system of transparent, open markets, essays reveal how capitalism depends upon, adapts to, and gains legitimacy from activities that occur outside the measured and the seen.

PrefaceRoger HorowitzIntroduction: Mapping the Shadowlands of CapitalismKenneth Lipartito and Lisa JacobsonPart I. Measuring and Unveiling MarketsChapter 1.Lifting the Veil of Money: What Economic Indicators HideEli CookChapter 2. Accounting for Reproductive Labor: Feminist Economists and the Construction of Social Knowledge on Rural Women in the Global SouthEileen BorisPart II. Working the MarginsChapter 3. The Loose Cotton Economy of the New Orleans Waterfront in the Late Nineteenth CenturyBruce E. BakerChapter 4. Jim Crow's Cut: White Supremacy and the Destruction of Black Capital in the Forests of the Deep SouthOwen James HymanChapter 5. In the Shadow of Incorporation: Hidden Economies of the Hispano Borderlands, 1890-1930Bryan W. TuroPart III. The Licit and the IllicitChapter 6. Capitalism's Back Pages: "Immoral" Advertising and Invisible Markets in Paris's Mass Press, 1880-1940Hannah FrydmanChapter 7. Capitalism's Black Heart in Wartime FranceKenneth MouréChapter 8. The Emergence of the Offshore Economy, 1914-1939James Hollis and Christopher McKennaPart IV. Hidden Market Spaces in Planned EconomiesChapter 9. Comrades In-Between: Transforming Commercial Practice in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1962Philip ScrantonChapter 10. Hidden Realms of Private Entrepreneurship: Soviet Jews and Post-World War II Artels in the USSRAnna KushkovaNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments