Logs for capital : the timber industry and capitalist enterprise in the nineteenth century

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Logs for capital : the timber industry and capitalist enterprise in the nineteenth century

Sing C. Chew

(Contributions in economics and economic history, no. 138)

Greenwood Press, 1992

  • : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-184) and index

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This study examines the process of capital accumulation at the level of the business firm, linking it to the macro-level of the world-economy as explicated by Hopkins and Wallerstein. Focusing upon the timber industry in the nineteenth century, and using primary archival material, the work analyzes how capital operates in the resource sector in the world-economy. The purpose is to refine further our understanding of capitalism as a mode of social organization and production, and in the process, refine contemporary theories of social change. In terms of coverage, the book addresses the timber industry over the course of the nineteenth century and provides an historical reconstruction of that industry. Its primary focus, however, is on the main features of timber and lumber production as a process of capital accumulation. The study will be of interest to scholars of social change and economic transformation, economic history, and political sociology.

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Preface Frameworks, Concepts, and Historical Processes The Capitalist Enterprise Wood, Labor, and State Rivalry The Dynamics of Accumulation Capitalist Practice Capital in Crisis Bibliography Index

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