Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

7-30-2018

Publication Title

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volume

July 2018

Pages

10

Publisher Name

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

Abstract

Large-scale movements of workers, production lines, commodities, and centers of power have been integral to capitalist development since its earliest stages (see Mintz 1986; Wallerstein 2011; Wolf 1997). Today, mobility continues to uphold global capitalism in important respects (Sassen 1988). In particular, the capacity to move production across nation-state borders has allowed capitalist industries to take advantage of post-colonial inequalities as they reorganize production in ways and places that reduce manufacturing costs and enhance corporate profit...

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Author Posting. © Association for Political and Legal Anthropology 2018. This article is posted here by permission of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 2018, https://polarjournal.org/2018/07/30/review-essay-law-and-migrant-labor-in-the-20th-century-ghost-workers-and-global-capitalism/

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