... creative forms of action that enable infrastructural maintenance and expansion. While essentially free in Safaricom’s accounts, this work critically underwrites the firm’s success. This dynamic extends beyond Safaricom’s labor regime, capturing the majority of Kenya’s adult population. As everyday...

... cognitive work, arguing that it is a means of dividing office work into skilled “front room” and grunt “back room” coding. Firms simultaneously pay attention to race as a source of information on foreign populations of potential customers and to evaluate the desired traits of future cognitive workers...

... in the everyday (here called eros), which helps define being middle class. It argues that alternatives to the colonization of leisure by work exist even within neoliberal regimes of work. These alternatives to immaterial labor flourish in the interstices between work as organized by firms and a middle-class...

... the land under the tailings piles as prime real estate, ripe for development: the key to making the city whole. This puts remediation at the center of debates about urban planning. As mines shut down, revolving doors spin mine officials and engineers into remediation consulting firms that profit from...

...—firms need to claim that their inventory is superior to others'. value supply chains promotion ...

.... Guided by the prudent logic of “sound finance,” the Crown and the Sultanate of Zanzibar authorized the firm to take up the task of administering the territory, an occupation that was geared toward establishing a revenue regime and securing corporate profits. Central to this project: the construction...

... decay and marginalization, casita’s historical significance as a counterspace to modernist urban development has evolved. The NY Restoration Project (nyrp) replaced the original casita with a streamlined, modular version designed by a global architectural firm. This transformation reflects...

... in-depth interviews and document analysis, the chapter recognizes the contributions of Zambezi Magic, arguing that while the channel is an example of a counterflow of global media and culture, it is also representative of the expansionist actions of media firms from the Global South that may also have...

... this process included low taxation, diesel subsidies, sanction of genetically modified seeds, and minimal regulation of foreign firms. Among the costs were the devastating and irreversible environmental effects on the tropical rainforest and indigenous peoples. Given the booming land market, rural land sale...

... was plagued by derogatory assumptions about Indians. Ultimately, its conclusions served the interests of the U.S.-based pharmaceutical firms and regulatory agencies that sought to control the licit production and processing of the leaf, as well as the licit commercialization and use of cocaine for medicinal...