An iced cold Coca-Cola. A cross-country flight on Delta to visit friends. A much-needed medication overnighted via Fed-Ex. Bulk toilet paper purchased at Wal-Mart. What do these items have in common? In today’s modern economy, each of these can be purchased from the comfort of the couch, frequently with a credit card pioneered by Bank of America. They are all also from companies headquartered in the American South. In this month's episode, historian Bart Elmore explains how corporations from the American South helped make it possible for us to satisfy our desires from the convenience of our home and/or hometown, no matter how remote, and the environmental costs associated with each.
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Ben Waterhouse on the Dream and Reality of Self Employment
Brent Cebul on Business, Inequality, and American Liberalism
Tim Keogh on Suburban Poverty and the Roots of Postwar Inequality
Premilla Nadasen on the Care Economy and the Potential for Radical Care
Hannah Forsyth on the Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World
Mark Erlich on the Way We Build and Restoring Dignity to Construction Work
Chelsea Schields on Oil, Intimacy, and the Offshore
Joan Flores-Villalobos on How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal
Christy Thornton on Mexico, Development, and Governing the Global Economy
Special Episode on the Military and the Market
Allan Lumba on Monetary Authorities in the American Colonial Philippines
Chad Pearson on Klansmen, Employer Vigilantes, and Labor Suppression in the Long Nineteenth Century
Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and the Making of Modern China
Claire Dunning on Nonprofit Neighborhoods and Urban Inequality
Mircea Raianu on Tata and Global Capitalism in India
Holger Droessler on Coconut Colonialism, Labor, and Globalization in Samoa
Keith Wailoo on Racial Marketing and the Rise of Menthol Cigarettes
Jason Resnikoff on the Automation Discourse and the Meaning of Work
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