Global CommoditiesBibliography

Index

General

Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco

Bananas

Coffee, Tea and Cacao

Consumption

Meat, Chicken and Fish

Mining

Oil

Sugar

Weaving/Textiles

Other

Useful Websites

Primary Sources

General

Achaya, K.T. The Food Industries of British India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Appadurai, Arjun, ed. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Barringer, Tom and Thomas Flynn. Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture, and the Museum. London: Routledge, 1998.

Burawoy, Michael. 1998. "The Extended Case Method." Sociological Theory 16, no. 1 (1998):4-33.

---------- (ed.). Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Burnett, John. England Eats Out: A Social History of Eating out in England from 1830 to the Present. London: Longman, 2004.

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique. Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Cohen, Deborah. Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

De Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.

Domosh, Mona. American Commodities in an Age of Empire. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006.

Friedland, William H. “Commodity Systems Analysis: An Approach to the Sociology of Agriculture.” In Research in Rural Sociology and Development, edited by H.K. Schwarzweller, Greensich, Conn.: Jai Press, 1984, 35-58.

Friedland, William H. et al. Towards a New Political Economy of Agriculture. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991.

Gereffi, Gary, and Miguel Korzeniewicz, eds. Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.

Gross, Robert A. "The Transnational Turn: Rediscovering American Studies in A Wider World." Journal of American Studies 34, no. 3 (2000): 373-393.

Gwynne, Robert N. "Clusters and Commodity Chains." Latin American Research Review 39, no. 3 (2004): 243-255.

Howes, David, ed., Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Hughes, Alex, and Suzanne Reimer, eds. Geographies of Commodity Chains. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.

Jones, Geoffrey. Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Lancaster, Bill. The Department Store: A Social History. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1995.

Lee, Ching Kwan. Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

McGerr, Michael. "The Price of "The New Transnational."" American Historical Review 96, no. 4 (1991): 1056-1067.

McMichael, Philip. "Incorporating Comparison within a World-Historical Perspective: An Alternative Comparative Method." American Sociological Review 55 (1990): 385-397.

Mintz, Sidney. Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture and the Past. Boston: Beacon, 1996.

Shukla, Sandya, and Heidi Tinsman. Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

Stern, Steve. "Feudalism, Capitalism, and the World-System in the Perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean." American Historical Review, 94(4), 829-872.

Tilly, Charles. 1984. Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Topik, Steven C. and Allen Wells. The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850-1930. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998.

------. From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodities and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. "Comments on Stern's Critical Tests." American Historical Review, 94 (4), 829-872.

---. The Modern World-System, vols. 1-3. New York: Academic P, various dates.

Williams, Robert C. Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Wolf, Eric. Europe and the People Without History, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Zlotnick, Susan. "Domesticating Imperialism: Curry and Cookbooks in Victorian England." Frontiers: a Journal of Women's Studies 16 (1996): 51-68.

Consumption

Benson, John. The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain, 1880-1980. Harlow: Longman, 1994.

Berg, Maxine. "In Pursuit of Luxury: Global History and British Consumer Goods in the Eighteenth Century." Past and Present 182 (2004): 85-142.

———. Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Burke, Timothy. Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women; Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

Cohen, Lizabeth. Consumers’ Republic. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Hoganson, Kristin L. Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Satterthwaite, Ann. Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences. NewHaven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.

Smith, Woodruff. Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800. London: Routledge, 2002.

Stillerman, Joel. “Private, Parochial, and Public Realms in Santiago, Chile’s Retail Sector.” City & Community 5, no. 3 (September 2006): 293-317.

-------------. “Gender, Class, and Generational Contexts for Consumption in Contemporary Chile.” Journal of Consumer Culture 4, 1 (March 2004): 51-78.

Tinsman, Heidi. “Politics of Gender and Consumption in Authoritarian Chile 1973-1990: Women Agricultural Workers in the Fruit-Export Industry.” Latin American Research Review, 41, no. 3 (2006): 7-31.

Wolf, Burton. What We Eat: The True Story of Why We Put Sugar in Our Coffee and Ketchup on Our Fries. San Diego: Tehabi Books, 2002.

Bananas (including Standard and United Fruit Studies)

Adams, Frederick Upham. Conquest of the Tropics. New York: Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1914.

Asturias, Miguel Angel. The Green Pope. New York: Delacorte Press, 1971.

Bourgois, Philippe I. Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Bucheli, Marcelo. “United Fruit in Colombia: Impact of Labor Relations and Governmental Regulations on Its Operations, 1948-1968.” Essays in Economic and Business History 17 (1997): 65-84.

Chomsky, Aviva. West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, 1870-1940. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

Davies, Peter N. Fyffes and the Banana: Musa Sapientum: A Centenary History, 1888-1988. London: Athlone Press, 1990.

Dosal, Paul. Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1988-1944. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1993.

Enloe, Cynthia. Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Euraque, Darío A. “The Banana Enclave, Nationalism, and Mestizaje in Honduras, 1910s-1930s.” In Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: Identity and Struggle in the Making of the Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, 1860-1960. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998.

Fox, Dennis N. Totally Bananas: The Funny Fruit in American History and Culture. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2002.

García Márquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.

Grossman, Lawrence. The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Holt, Thomas C. The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Jenkins, Virginia Scott. Bananas: An American History. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

Karnes, Thomas L. Tropical Enterprise: The Standard Fruit and Steamship Company in Latin America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.

Kepner, Charles D. and Jay Soothill. The Banana Empire: A Case Study in Economic Imperialism. New York: Russell and Russell, 1935.

Koeppel, Dan. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World.

Langley, Lester D. The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1995

LeGrand, Catherine C. Frontier Expansion and Peasant Protest in Colombia. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

McCann, Thomas. An American Company: The Tragedy of United Fruit. New York: Crown, 1976.

Schlesinger, Stephen and Stephen Kinser. Bitter Fruit: The Untold story of the American Coup in Guatemala. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982.

Solberg, Helena and Davide Meyer. Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business. International Cinema. Videocasette. 1994.

Striffler, Steve, and Mark Moberg, ed. Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas. Durham, N.C.: Duke Unversity Press, 2005.

Striffler, Steve. In the Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.

Soluri, John. Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.

Sugar

Aguilar, Filomeno V., Jr. Clash of Spirits: The History of Power and Sugar Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998.

Ahluwalia, D. P. S, Bill Ashcroft, and Roger Knight. White and Deadly: Sugar and Colonialism. Commack, N.Y: Nova Science Publishers, 1999.

Ayala, Cesar J. American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Breschini, Gary, Mona Gudgel, and Trudy Haversa. Spreckels (California). Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub., 2006.    

Brewer, John, and Roy Porter, eds. Consumption and the World of Goods. London: Routledge, 1993.

Chalmin, P. The Making of a Sugar Giant: Tate & Lyle, 1859-1989. New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1990.

Dean, Don Howard. The American Cane Mill: A History of the Machines, the Manufacturers, Sugar Cane and Sorghum. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2008.

Duus, Peter. The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Feltoe, Richard. Redpath: The History of a Sugar House. (Canadian sugar industry) Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural History, 1991.

Figueroa, Luis A. Sugar, Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Guerra y Sanchez, Ramiro. Sugar and Society in the Caribbean: an Economic History of Cuban Agriculture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Guy, Donna J. Argentine Sugar Politics: Tucuman and the Generation of Eighty. Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University, 1980.

Hall, Michael R. Sugar and Power in the Dominican Republic: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Trujillos. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Ingleson, John. In Search of Justice: Workers and Unions of Colonial Java 1908-1926. Singapore; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Knight, G.R. Colonial Production in Provincial Java: The Sugar Industry Pekalongan-Tegal, 1800-1942.

Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1993.

Mangru, Basdeo. A History of East Indian Resistance on the Guyana Sugar Estates, 1869-1948. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996

McGillivray, Gillian. Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and State-Formation in Cuba, 1868-1959. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, forthcoming.

Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

-----. Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1974.

Moreno Fraginals, Manuel. The Sugarmill: The Socioeconomic Complex of Sugar in Cuba, 1760-1860. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1976.

Ortiz, Fernandez. Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.

Plant, Roger. Sugar and Modern Slavery: A Tale of Two Countries. (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) London; New Jersey: Zed Books, 1987.

Reinecke, John E. The Filipino Piecemeal Sugar Strike of 1924-1925. Honolulu: Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii, 1996.

Schwartz, Stuart B. Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835. Cambridge Latin American studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Schwartz, Stuart B., ed. Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Takaki, Ronald. Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii 1835-1920. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983.

Taylor, Kit Sims. Sugar and the Underdevelopment of Northeastern Brazil,1500-1970. Gainesville: University of Florida, 1978

Turits, Richard. Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004).

Coffee, tea and cacao

Allen, Stewart Lee. The Devil’s Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force of History. New York: Soho Press, 1999.

Bergad, Laird W. Coffee and the Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Bergquist, Charles W. Coffee and Conflict in Colombia, 1886-1910. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 1978.

Cambranes, J. C. Coffee and Peasants: The Origins of the Modern Plantation Economy in Guatemala, 1853-1897. Stockholm, Sweden: Institute of Latin American Studies, 1985.

Chatterjee, Piya. A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2001.

Clarence-Smith, W. G. Cocoa Pioneer Fronts since 1800: The Role of Smallholders, Planters, and Merchants. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Clarence-Smith, W. G. Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914. London: Routledge, 2000.

Clarence-Smith, William Gervase, and Steven Topik. The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. 2003.

Coe, Sophie D. The True History of Chocolate. Rev. [and updated ed.]. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2007.

Jaffee, Daniel. Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Paige, Jeffery M. Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Roseberry, William and Lowelle Gudmundson, Mario Sasmper Kutschbach, Coffee, Society, and Power in Latin America. Baltimore, MA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Smith, S.D. "Accounting for Taste: British Coffee Consumption in Historical Perspective." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 27 (1996): 183-214.

Stein, Stanley J. Vassouras, a Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957.

Venkatachalapathy, A.R. "'in Those Days There Was No Coffee': Coffee-Drinking and Middle-Class Culture in Colonial Tamilnadu." Indian Economic and Social History Review 39, no. 2/3 (2002): 301-16.

Weiss, Brad. Sacred Trees, Harvest: Globalizing Coffee in Northwest Tanzania. Westport, Conn: Heinemann, 2003.

Williams, Robert G. States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Alcohol and Tobacco

Chatterjee, Piya. "An Empire of Drink: Gender, Labour and the Historical Economies of Alcohol." Journal of Historical Sociology 16, no. 2 (2003).

Heron, Craig. Booze: A Distilled History. Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2003.

Lacoste, Pablo. “The Rise and Secularization of Viticulture in Mendoza: The Godoy Family Contribution, 1700-1831.” The Americas 63, no. 3 (2007): 385-407.

Mills, James H. Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition 1800-1928. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Ortiz, Fernandez. Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.

Daniel, Pete. Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures Since 1880. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Meat, Chicken and Fish (including canneries)

Barrett, James R. Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Halpern, Rick. Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Horowitz, Roger. Putting Meat on the American Table. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

James, Daniel. Doña María’s Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000.

Labrianidis, L. “Flexibility in Production though Subcontracting: The Case of the Poultry Meat Industry in Greece.” Environmental and Planning A 27 (1995).

Lobato, Mirta Z. La vida en las fábricas: Trabajo, protesta y política en una comunidad obrera, Berisso (1904-1970). Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros, 2004.

Ruiz, Vicki L. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950. University of New Mexico Press, 1987.

Sabato, Hilda. Capitalismo y ganadería en Buenos Aires: La fiebre del lanar, 1850-1890. Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1989.

Schurman, Rachel A. "Shuckers, Sorters, Headers, and Gutters: Labor in the Fisheries Sector." In Victims of the Chilean Miracle: Workers and Neoliberalism in the Pinochet Era, 1973-2002, edited by

Peter Winn, 298-336. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.

---------. "Snails, Southern Hake and Sustainability: Neoliberalism and Natural Resource Exports in Chile." World Development 24, no. 11 (1996): 1695-1709.

---------. "Uncertain gains: Labor in Chile's new export sectors." Latin American Research Review; Austin 36, no. 2 (2001): 3-29.

Striffler, Steve. Chicken: The dangerous transformation of America's favorite food. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.

Walton, John K. "Fish and Chips and the British Working Class, 1870-1930." Journal of Social History 23 (1989): 243-66.

Mining

Avery, David. Not on Queen Victoria's Birthday; the Story of the Rio Tinto Mines. London: Collins, 1974.

Bakewell, P. J. Miners of the Red Mountain: Indian Labor in Potosí, 1545-1650. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.

---. Silver Mining and Society in Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1546-1700. Cambridge [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press, 1971.

Besserer, Federico. El sindicalismo minero en Mexico, 1900-1952. 1st ed. Mexico, D.F: Ediciones Era, 1983.

Bonilla, Heraclio. El minero de los Andes: una aproximación a su estudio. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1974.

Brading, D. A. Miners and Merchants in Bourbon Mexico, 1763-1810. Cambridge [Eng.]: Cambridge University Press, 1971.

Brugge, Doug, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis. The Navajo People and Uranium Mining. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Cárdenas García, Nicolás. Empresas y trabajadores en la gran minería mexicana, 1900-1929: La revolución y el nuevo sistema de relaciones laborales. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Estudios Historicos de la Revolucion Mexicana, 1998.

Chomsky, Aviva, Garry Leech, and Steve Striffler. The People behind Colombian Coal. Casa Editorial Pisando Callos, 2007.

Cole, Jeffrey A. The Potosí Mita, 1573-1700: Compulsory Indian Labor in the Andes. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1985.

Contreras, Carlos. Mineros y campesinos en los Andes: Mercado laboral y economía campesina en la Sierra Central, siglo XIX. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1988.

Deustua, José. The Bewitchment of Silver: The Social Economy of Mining in Nineteenth-Century Peru. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000.

DeWind, Josh. Peasants Become Miners: The Evolution of Industrial Mining Systems in Peru, 1902-1974. New York: Garland Pub, 1987.

Eakin, Marshall C. British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John D'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960. Durham: Duke University Press, 1989.

Emmons, David M. The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Finn, Janet L. Tracing the Veins: Of Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Fisher, John Robert. Silver Mines and Silver Miners in Colonial Peru, 1776-1824. Liverpool: Centre for Latin-American Studies, University of Liverpool, 1977.

Gier, Jaclyn J, and Laurie Mercier, eds. Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670 to 2005. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

González M., Sergio. Hombres y mujeres de la pampa: Tarapacá en el ciclo del salitre. Ediciones especiales Camanchaca. Iquique, Chile: Taller de Estudios Regionales, 1991.

Harvey, Charles. The Rio Tinto Company: An Economic History of a Leading International Mining Concern, 1873-1954. Penzance, Cornwall: A. Hodge, 1981.

Jiménez Chávez, Iván. Mujeres de las minas de Bolivia. La Paz, Bolivia: Ministerio de Desarrollo Humano, Secretaría de Asuntos Etnicos, de Género y Generacionales, Subsecretaría de Asuntos de Género, 1997.

Klubock, Thomas Miller. Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1951. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998.

Márquez, C.G. “Labour Discipline and Resistance: The Oruro Mining District in the Late Colonial Period.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 22, no. 1 (January 2003): 1-26.

Mercier, Laurie. Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Murphy, Mary. Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Nash, June C. We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

Nimura, Kazuo. The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 1997.

Parpart, Jane L. Labor and Capital on the African Copperbelt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.

Perrings, Charles. Black Mineworkers in Central Africa: Industrial Strategies and the Evolution of an African Proletariat in the Copperbelt, 1911-41. New York: Africana Pub. Co., 1979.

Pinto Vallejos, Julio, ed. Episodios de historia minera: Estudios de historia social y económica de la minería chilena, siglos XVIII-XIX. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universidad de Santiago, 1997.

Pinto Vallejos, Julio. Expansión minera y desarrollo industrial: Un caso de crecimiento asociado (Chile 1850-1914). Santiago de Chile: Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, 1990.

---. Trabajos y rebeldías en la pampa salitrera: El ciclo del salitre y la reconfiguración de las identidades populares (1850-1900). Santiago: Universidad de Santiago, 1998.

Ramírez Cuellar, Francisco, Aviva Chomsky, and Javier Giraldo. The Profits of Extermination: Big Mining in Colombia. Common Courage Press, 2005.

Sariego Rodríguez, Juan Luis. Enclaves y minerales en el norte de Mexico: historia social de los mineros de Cananea y Nueva Rosita, 1900-1970. Mexico, D.F: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1988.

---. Los mineros De La Real Del Monte: Características de un proceso de proletarización. Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones Superiores del INAH, 1978.

Vergara, Angela. Copper Workers, International Business and Domestic Politics in Cold War Chile. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.

Van Onselen, Charles. Chibaro: African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia. London: Pluto Press, 1976.

Zulawski, Ann. They Eat from Their Labor: Work and Social Change in Colonial Bolivia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.

---. “Wages, Ore Sharing, and Peasant Agriculture: Labor in Oruro's Silver Mines, 1607-1720.” Hispanic American Historical Review 67, no. 3 (1987): 405-430.

Oil

Ehsani, Kaveh. “Social Engineering and the Contradictions of Modernization in Khuzestan’s Company Towns: A Look at Abadan and Masjed-Soleyman.” IRSH 48 (2003): 361-399.

Elm, Mostafa. Oil, Power, and Principle: Iran's Oil Nationalization and Its Aftermath. 1st ed. Contemporary issues in the Middle East. Syracuse, N.Y: Syracuse University Press, 1992.

Elwell-Sutton, L. P. Persian Oil; a Study in Power Politics. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1955.

Ferrier, R. W. The History of the British Petroleum Company. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Gerlach, Allen. Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2003

Santiago, Myrna I. The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Sawyer, Suzana. Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2004.

Tinker-Salas, Miguel. “Races and Cultures in the Venezuelan Oil Fields.” In Work, Protest, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Latin America, Vicent Peloso ed. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003.

Weaving/Textiles

Anderson, Kym, editor. (1992) New Silk Roads: East Asia and World Textile Markets, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Maskiell, Michelle. "Consuming Kashmir: Shawls and Empires, 1500-2000." Journal of World History 13, no. 1 (2002): 27-66.

Mathur, Saloni. India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

Salvucci, Richard J. Textiles and Capitalism in Mexico: An Economic History of the Obrajes, 1539-1840. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1987.

Scrase, Timothy J (2003), “Precarious Production: Globalisation and Artisan Labour in the Third World”, Third World Quarterly, 24 (3): 449-461.

Other products

Barndt, Deborah. Tangled Routes: Women, Work and Globalization on the Tomato Route. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

Bestor, Theodore C. "Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City." American Anthropologist 103, no. 1 (2001): 76-95.

Dolan, Katherine, and John Humphrey. "Changing governance patterns in the trade in fresh vegetables between Africa and the United Kingdom." Environment and Planning A 36 (2004): 491-509.

Issenberg, Sasha. The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy. New York, N.Y.: Gotham Books, 2007.

Kourí, Emilio. A Pueblo Divided: Business, Property, and Community in Papantla, Mexico. Stanford Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. (vanilla)

McDonough, Yona. The Barbie Chronicles. New York: Touchstone, 1999.

Rand, Erica. Barbie’s Queer Accessories. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Soto-Laveaga, Gabriela. “Uncommon Trajectories: Steroid Hormones, Mexican Peasants, and the Search for a Wild Yam..” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36, no. 4 (December 2005): 743-760.

Weinstein, Barbara. The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1983.

Wells, Allen. Yucatán's Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequen, and International Harvester, 1860-1915. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.

Ziegler, Catherine. Favored Flowers: Culture and Economy in a Global System. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

Useful websites and primary sources for the Study of Commodity Chains:

Asociacion Mexicana de Historia Economica http://www.economia.unam.mx/amhe/index.html

Commodity Chains Website (Dutch)

Commodities of Empire http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/commodities-of-empire/index.html

Consumption (Warwick) websiteEconomic History Services http://oxlad.qeh.ox.ac.uk/

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/commodities-of-empire/index.html

Global Value Chains: Website based at the Duke University Center for Globalization, Governance, and Competitiveness with extensive information, including a directory of researchers around the world and a searchable publication database related to “global value chains” – a conceptual tool that aims to provide an “industry centric view of economic globalization that highlights the linkages between economic actors and across geographic space.” http://www.globalvaluechains.org/

International Federation of Free Trade Unions http://www.icftu.org/

International Institute for Social History: http://www.iisg.nl/

Mining History Association http://www.mininghistoryassociation.org

OXFAM http://www.oxfam.org/en/

Oxford Latin American Economic History Database http://oxlad.qeh.ox.ac.uk/

Society for the Social History of Medicine http://www.sshm.org

Sources for the history of Mexican oil http://www.colmex.mx/ceh/petroleo/present.php

United Fruit Historical Society http://www.unitedfruit.org/

Primary Sources

Criminal Trial Records and records from Labour Courts (if they exist in your country study case.)

Chambers of commerce

Church and Missionary Reports

Diplomatic correspondence (Public Records Office in London, U.S. National Archives in Maryland, etc. etc.)

International Labour Organization (Geneva). Library has archives on labour policy and labour unions. Country reports, monthly reports, index of labour regulation, analysis and comparison of different countries. http://www.ilo.org

International Labour Review: http://www.ilo.org/global/What_we_do/Publications/ILOBookstore/index.htm

Ministry of Labour; Labour inspectors’ reports

Ministry of Health, Medical Journals, Social Security Office

National Archives and Records Administration (United States) http://www.archives.gov/

National Congress (especially when laws about work or occupational health are being debated)

World Health Organization and regional officesPanamerican Health Organization http://www.paho.org/

The U.S. sent “Labor Attaches” from various countries, who reported back to the Department of Labor or the Department of State.

Chicago Library has Microfilmed Ministerial Reports from Brazil. [if someone has link to library, please insert it here—is it University of Chicago Library?]

The American Presidency Project, University of California at Santa Barbara http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

Newspapers-London and New York Times have strike records [Ravi, can you explain this—I wrote it in my notes but don’t recall the details… someone published a book using purely London NY Times or something along these lines?]

Literary sources, Songs, Novels, FilmsTo get at working class/ community culture

Anthropological studies (some colonial agents produced such reports)

Contagious Disease reports (good way to find what women were doing in communities)

Municipal Sources related to housing and health

Interviews

Company archives for specific case studies (Baker Library at Harvard has quite a few collections; insert more ideas here for where to find case studies!)

Strategy for finding what women did when they do not show up in the written sources: look at the photographs.