Logistics and Power (eBook)

Supply Chains from Slavery to Space

Susan Zieger (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
400 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40289-8 (ISBN)

Infos

From supply chains to surveillance, how logistics drives modern powerand its consequences. Movement is the lifeblood of capital, even more so than growth. If goods, people, and information dont flow, then profits dont either. Ensuring that laborers, shipping containers, media, commercially valuable data, and much else are in the right place at the right time demands a subtle choreography. Enter logistics. Susan Zieger argues that logistics is the foundation of power in our time. Blending detailed historical research with real-life stories that crystallize the human and ecological consequences of supply chains, Logistics and Power shows how the pursuit of efficient movement has come to organize economies while disordering societies and selves. Logistics emerges as the key to consumerism and the experience of work. It justifies corporate and police surveillance, illuminates patterns of migration and exploitation, and explains why the oceans are clotted with plastic. It is in the sphere oflogisticsthat capitalistmotives are most dramatically in tension with planetary needs. A headfirst encounter with the obscure forces subordinating all goals below those of capital,Logistics and Power points the way to an alternative: a mindful and politically attentive kind of movement compatible with human thriving.

Inhalt

Contents
 
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
1. Modernity and Logistical Power
2. Flow
3. The Darkness
4. Nightmares
5. Shelf Life
6. Box and Chain
7. Handling
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.9.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: air cargo systems • climate change • consumer demand shaping trade • Covid • Distribution • Economic Geography • Environmental impact • freight transportation • Fulfillment centers • Global Supply Chains • Infrastructure • labor force dynamics • port operations • Refugee • supply disruptions • supply ethics • trade globalization • Transportation Networks • war crisis
• ISBN-10: 0-520-40289-8 / 0520402898
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-40289-8 / 9780520402898