Empire of cotton: a new history of global capitalism
"For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business - if all the cotton bales produced in 2013 had been stacked on top of each other they would have made a somewhat unstable tower 40,000 miles high. Sven Beckert&...
Main Author: | Beckert, Sven |
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Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
Format: | TEXT |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York
2014
Penguin Books |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-788012450629-empire-of-cotton-a-new-history.htm |
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