The Political Economy of Modern Capitalism: Theory and Practice
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The Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism wrapped for the year on Monday with student presentations:
April 28: New Research in the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism
- Meghan Morris: “Ethical Consumerism Meets Enviro-Capitalism: The ‘Moral Economy’ of Fair Trade Chocolate Production”
Meghan reported on first hand experience and struck a downbeat note:
… fair trade leaders forming part of the new transnational capitalist class disseminate fair trade ideology, notions of indigeneity and environmental sustainability, and the culture of ethical consumerism, peddling not only chocolate but transformed and reworked peripheral capitalisms, borne out of both resistance to and acceptance of the neoliberal paradigm.
On the other hand, Meghan won’t be at May Day – she will be making her compromise with the prevailing paradigm.
- Di Yin Lu: “Plunder and Profit: The Sacking of the Yuan Ming Yuan and the International Art Market”
- Shekhar Krishnan: “Bombay Cotton: Share Mania in the Colonial City”
- Caitlin Rosenthal: “Accounting for Labor: Information and the Factory in America, 1800-1850”
I will report on the other papers, but first… the practicum.
The Harvard contingent is just entering from the right.
The May Day Coalition website for 2008.
