Narrating the shop -- A shop is not a home: dirt, ethnicity, and the sweatshop -- Surviving sites: sweatshops in the progressive era and beyond -- Newsreel of memory: the WPA sweatshop in the Great Depression -- The sweatshop returns: post-industrial art -- Spinning the shop -- Spinning the new...

"This book examines the origins of globalization in the 1980s, the developments that triggered the Great Recession, and the political and economic forces that contributed to the disintegration of globalization as a force for change in the modern world. After Globalization explains what...

Introduction / Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn -- Escaping a closed universe : world-system crisis, regional dynamics and the rise of Aegean palatial society / Johnny Persson -- The final collapse of the Mediterranean-Egyptian Near Eastern bronze age as a global systemic phenomenon...