Devil's Milk A Social History of Rubber

Name: Devil's Milk A Social History of Rubber
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ISBN: 9781583672310

ISBN-10: 1583672311

ISBN-13: 9781583672310

Edition: 2011

Authors: John Tully

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Publication date: 2/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface: Why a Book on Rubber?


Introduction: The Muscles and Sinews of Industrial Society



From the sacred essence of life to the muscles and sinews of industrial society



Rubber in Mesoamerican Civilizations



Rubber in the Industrial Revolution



The Dark Side of the Rubber Revolution



Wild rubber: a primitive "mode of extraction"



The Amazon Rubber Boom



The Lives of the Seringueiros



There is No Sin Beyond the Equator



Heart of Darkness: Rubber and Blood on the Congo



Gutta-Percha, Telegraphs, Imperialism, and Ecology



Monopoly capitalism in Akron



"Rubber's Home Town"



The 1913 IWW Strike at Akron



Sisters, Brothers, Unite! The Rubber Workers' Union in Akron



Plantation hevea: agribusiness and imperialism



The Triumph of Plantation Hevea



The Planters' World



The Coolie Diaspora



The Coolies' World



Coolie Revolts



Synthetic rubber, war and autarky



The Long Road to Monowitz



Monowitz: "A Bulwark of Germandom"



The Only Way Out Is Up the Chimney



The Allied Struggle for Rubber in the Second World War



War Is Good for Business


Epilogue: Rubber in the Postwar World


Bibliography


Notes


Index