Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations in the Distribution of Central European Copper in the Eighteenth Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 150-174
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
Commodity Chains ◽  
Central European ◽  
Global Commodity Chains

Handelsverbindungen zwischen zentraleuropäischem Binnenmarkt, regionalem Warenaustausch und globalen Güterketten

2021 ◽  
pp. 713-742
Author(s):  
Klemens Kaps
Keyword(s):  
Raw Materials ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
Commodity Chains ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Luxury Goods ◽  
Central European ◽  
Global Commodity Chains ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Market Consolidation ◽  
The 19Th Century

Trade Links between the Central European Domestic Market, Regional Trade and Global Commodity Chains. The integration of Lower Austria’s economy into global interactions intensified in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Vienna and Trieste replaced old centres of trade intermediation such as Krems an der Donau. The purchase of raw materials and luxury goods and the sale of commercial goods in the Mediterranean and Atlantic region were handled via these two metropolises. In addition to the merchants in Trieste and Vienna, trade centres further afield also played a significant role, and local intermediary nodes in Lower Austria itself were also important. Migration processes, the foundation of companies, and investments resulted in a complex process of market consolidation from the local and regional to the global level. Steam shipping, rail connections and the growth of the financial sector transformed the material structure and functioning of the networks in the second half of the 19th century, but not the commercial geography.

Labor-Value Commodity Chains

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-69
Author(s):  
Intan Suwandi
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
First Century ◽  
Commodity Chains ◽  
Decentralized Networks ◽  
Global Commodity Chains ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century

The analysis of global commodity chains creates some crucial questions in relation to the nature of imperialism in the twenty-first century: (1) whether decentralized global commodity chains can be seen as constituting a decentralization of power among the major actors within these chains, and (2) whether the complexities of these chains suggest that the hierarchical, imperialist characteristics of the world economy have been superseded. I argue that the answer to both of these questions is no. Despite the seemingly decentralized networks, and notwithstanding the existing complexities that characterize global commodity chains, the capital-labor relations inherent in these chains are still imperialistic in their configurations.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher C. Fennell
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Commodity Chains ◽  
Economic Dynamics ◽  
Ethnic Networks ◽  
Global Commodity Chains ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
The Subject

The introduction provides an overview of the themes of world economic systems, global commodity chains, and ways in which development plans can be thwarted by local social networks and ostensibly peripheral players. This chapter opens the subject of the ways in which these theories have neglected the impacts of ethnic networks and racism upon economic dynamics. This critique is revisited and expanded in the concluding chapters seven and eleven.

Everyday Entanglements

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary J. M. Beier
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
The West ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
British Military ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Residential Quarters

The policy of incorporating enslaved Africans into colonial military installations throughout the Caribbean was standard British military policy by the eighteenth century. The Cabrits Garrison, located on the northwestern coast of the Caribbean island of Dominica, was occupied by the British Army between 1763 and 1854. Using available archival and archaeological evidence from structures occupied by lower status military personnel, including enslaved laborers and soldiers of African descent serving in the West India Regiments (WIR), this chapter compares these residential quarters to provide a vantage point exploring lived experience within the formal landscape of British imperialism. Findings demonstrate the connection between these living areas and wider developments across the British Empire and Caribbean plantation culture while also revealing the varied and contradictory nature of identities resulting from dynamic labor relations and daily practices.

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