University of Chicago Press
Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism
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- Dara Orenstein
- University of Chicago Press
- Paperback
- 9780226662909
- 8.9 X 6 X 0.8 inches
- 0.95 pounds
- History > United States - General
- English
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In Out of Stock, Dara Orenstein delivers an ambitious and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in American commerce and industry: the warehouse. She traces the progression from the nineteenth century's bonded warehouses to today's foreign-trade zones, enclaves where goods can be simultaneously on US soil and off US customs territory. Orenstein contends that these zones--nearly 800 of which are scattered across the country--are emblematic of why warehouses have begun to supplant factories in the age of Amazon and Walmart. Circulation is so crucial to the logistics of how and where goods are made that it is increasingly inseparable from production, to the point that warehouses are now some of the most pivotal spaces of global capitalism. Drawing from cultural geography, cultural history, and political economy, Out of Stock nimbly demonstrates the centrality of warehouses for corporations, workers, cities, and empires.
Out of Stock: The Warehouse in the History of Capitalism
Author Bio
Dara Orenstein is currently completing a book on the history of foreign-trade zones in the United States from 1789 to 1989. As an assistant professor in the Department of American Studies, she has taught seminars on cultural theory; the cultural politics of labor; the history and theory of American capitalism; racial capitalism; zombie films and the idea of zombie capitalism; and the discipline of American Studies.
Research Interests
History of Capitalism, History of Photography, Critical Geography, Cultural and Social Theory
Education
BA, African American Studies, Harvard University (1996)
PhD, American Studies, Yale University (2012)
Source: The George Washington University
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