...Harry R. Stevens The Ropemakers of Plymouth: A History of the Plymouth Cordage Company 1824-1949 . By Morison Samuel Eliot . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1950 . Pp. vi , 177 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 456 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Norman S. Buchanan Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 THE PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE NORMAN S. BUCHANAN I AMID the economic disorders of recent years few institu. tions have fallen farther from grace than the public utility holding company. Once in high...

...Simon Williams Directions by Indirections: John Barton of the Royal Shakespeare Company . By Greenwald Michael L. . Cranbury, N.J. : University of Delaware Press , 1986 . Pp. 317 . $37.50 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 351 Reynolds Price...

...Robert S. Smith Pepperell’s Progress: History of a Cotton Textile Company, 1844-1945 . By Knowlton Evelyn H. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1948 . Pp. xxix , 511 . $5.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 108 The South Atlantic Quarterly commitment...

...Bernard M. Olsen Bearsted: A Biography of Marcus Samuel, First Viscount Bearsted and Founder of “Shell” Transport and Trading Company . By Henriques Robert . New York : The Viking Press , 1960 . Pp. xi , 676 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Book...

...Dinah Rajak This article focuses on HIV/AIDS management at Anglo American, the world's third-biggest mining company, the largest private-sector employer in South Africa and across the continent, and the first company to provide antiretroviral therapy (ART) “free of charge” to its workforce...

...Jorge Millones The US-based Newmont Mining Corporation is the world's wealthiest gold mining company and has been denounced within the United States and by other countries including Indonesia, Ghana, Turkey, and Bolivia. Its critics accuse Newmont of seriously damaging the environment and public...

... that the claims staked by Western oil companies to the entire subterranean sphere involved a configuration of sovereignty in which the states in question were alienated from the resources of value. This hollow form of sovereignty had corollaries on the territorial level where oil companies promoted sectarianism...

... companies and individual go-betweens, who collaborate with each other transnationally. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 The South Atlantic Quarterly 111:4, Fall 2012 doi 10.1215/00382876-1724156 © 2012 Duke University Press Biao Xiang Labor Transplant: Point-to-Point Transnational Labor Migration...

... misses the important ways in which the two have become physically and technologically built into one another over the last three decades. While Washington leaders and oil company officials sought to secure strategic and energy interests in the Middle East throughout much of the twentieth century...

... that support their daily survival. To open space for maneuver within nation-state borders, runaway migrant workers utilize their agency and negotiate state and nonstate structures such as recruitment companies, NGOs and civil society organizations, migrant communities, illegal agency services, and taxi drivers...

... to universalize and totalize platform power, we discuss three cases of what we term “actually existing platformization”—a path-dependent and locally situated process in which platform companies engage in various forms of “boundary work” with other actors seeking to retain and/or gain power. Each case focuses...

..., with a particular emphasis on how certain of their characteristics have been subordinated, controlled, exploited, and ultimately disseminated by application software companies in Brazil; second, and conversely, it evaluates how the form of subjectivity associated with platform capitalism has, through the neoliberal...

... worked between 1878 and 1911 on the Imperial Sugar Company’s plantation as part of Texas’s convict-lease system. The remains unearthed in Sugar Land compel consideration of the tenuousness and illusory nature of freedom in the United States. Focusing on James Hannaham’s Delicious Foods (2015) and Colson...

...-making between private extraction companies and First Nations, but in fact affords the state a key role in setting the terms. Ultimately, it is not only that the settler state law sets the context for what can be negotiated between the parties, but also that state actors actively facilitate the agreement...

.... Finally, we give an overview of contemporary efforts to stop pipelines by constraining companies’ access to money, arguing that detailed understandings of industry dynamics strengthen such work. Most importantly, we contend that processes of financial valuation provide opportunities for political...

... of radical change for distant others across the Global South. Tracking the interventions of one solar company in the West African Ebola crisis and reflecting on the industry’s response to COVID-19, this paper explores the politics, ethics, and possibility of solarity in the context of these historic...

... of extravagance and dissipation, especially all horse-racing, and all kinds of gaming, cock-fighting, exhibitions of shews, plays, and other expensive diversions and entertainments. Although Congress had no real power to enforce this mandate, it was generally respected, the companies then playing in America...

... agents and have had many experi­ ences with it, some of them most unfortunate. My eldest brother has been in the business for more than fifty years. My eldest son was long an agent for one of the great companies. Many of my close friends and acquaintances are agents. Furthermore, in trying to collect...

... agreements such as the closed shop and preferential hiring, they sometimes forced skilled blacks out of shipyard work, to be re­ placed by white men. For example, blacks worked at the Tampa Shipbuilding Company in skilled jobs until 1938, when the company under federal pressure signed a closed shop agreement...