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The Fabric of Capitalism
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The Fabric of Capitalism The Fabric of Capitalism What can we learn about the history of capitalism by following slavery’s supply chains?
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection)Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slaveryby Seth RockmanUniversity of Chicago Press, 2024, 496 pp.
On April 24, 2013, Rana Plaza, an industrial building in Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 workers and injuring more than 2,000 others.
It is a history of global supply chains, and of what connects and divides the producers and consumers at each end.
Writing about a nineteenth-century fabric sample, Rockman’s words might have described the Rana Plaza tragedy: “a small piece of woolen cloth .
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