An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism: From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World | BERGHAHN BOOKS
Join our Email List Berghahn Books Logo

berghahn New York · Oxford
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
Browse
An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism: From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World

View Table of Contents


Email Newsletters

Sign up for our email newsletters to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.

Click here to select your preferences

An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism

From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World

Paul A. Shackel

164 pages, 10 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78920-547-3 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (December 2019)

eISBN 978-1-78920-548-0 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781789205473


View CartYour country: - edit Request a Review or Examination Copy (in Digital Format)Recommend to your LibraryAvailable in GOBI®

Reviews

“Highly recommended.” • Choice

“This is an important and insightful book that demonstrates how social injustice is perpetuated in the legacy of exploitation in the past and our failure to protect developing nations from the same fate in the present.” • Antiquity

“This is a magnificent book and deserves to be widely read. At a time when many people around the world are losing faith in politicians and American global leadership it illustrates how historical archaeology can connect past and present and reveals how the ‘slow violence’ of industrial capitalism has devastated landscapes and continues to blight the lives of transgenerational global communities.” • James Symonds, University of Amsterdam

Description

The racialization of immigrant labor and the labor strife in the coal and textile communities in northeastern Pennsylvania appears to be an isolated incident in history. Rather this history can serve as a touchstone, connecting the history of the exploited laborers to today’s labor in the global economy. By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social justice issues.

Paul Shackel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. His research projects have focused on the role of archaeology in civic engagement activities related to race and labor. A sample of his work on this topic includes: New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland (2011), and a coauthored volume with Barbara Little - Archaeology, Heritage and Civic Engagement: Working toward the Public Good (2014).  He recently published Remembering Lattimer: Migration, Labor, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country (2018) which focuses on labor and migration in northern Appalachia in the United States.

Subject: ArchaeologyHistory (General)Political and Economic Anthropology
Area: North America


Contents

Back to Top



Library Recommendation Form

Dear Librarian,

I would like to recommend An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism From the American Rust Belt to the Developing World for the library. Please include it in your next purchasing review with my strong recommendation. The RRP is: $135.00

I recommend this title for the following reasons:

BENEFIT FOR THE LIBRARY: This book will be a valuable addition to the library's collection.

REFERENCE: I will refer to this book for my research/teaching work.

STUDENT REFERRAL: I will regularly refer my students to the book to assist their studies.

OWN AFFILIATION: I am an editor/contributor to this book or another book in the Series (where applicable) and/or on the Editorial Board of the Series, of which this volume is part.