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Category : Rubber
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Notes on America's Rubber Industry
Author: How Research in Rubber Contributes to Modern Ways of Living
Author: Goodyear Tire and Rubber CompanyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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How Rubber Reduces the Farmer's Labor and Lowers the Cost of His Crops
Author: Goodyear Tire and Rubber CompanyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Notes on the History of the Plantation Rubber Industry of the East
Author: Thomas PetchIt Takes a World-wide Organization to Produce a Modern Auto Tire
Author: Goodyear Tire and Rubber CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Rubber industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Rubber Tires Now Cost 1/4 as Much and Last 10 Times as Long
Author: Goodyear Tire and Rubber CompanyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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The Rubber Industry in the United States ...
Author: Rubber association of America, IncPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 42
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A World History of Rubber
Author: Stephen L. HarpPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118934253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption, from the nineteenth century to today, through the fascinating story of one commodity. Divides the coverage into themes of race, migration, and labor; gender on plantations and in factories; demand and everyday consumption; World Wars and nationalism; and resistance and independence Highlights the interrelatedness of our world long before the age of globalization and the global social inequalities that persist today Discusses key concepts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including imperialism, industrialization, racism, and inequality, through the lens of rubber Provides an engaging and accessible narrative for all levels that is filled with archival research, illustrations, and maps
Surpluses
Author: P. W. LitchfieldPublisher:
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Category : Rubber industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Empire of Rubber
Author: Gregg MitmanPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620973782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
An ambitious and shocking exposé of America’s hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the nation’s explosive economic expansion. To solve its conundrum, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company turned to a tiny West African nation, Liberia, founded in 1847 as a free Black republic. Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, and environmental devastation, as Firestone transformed Liberia into America’s rubber empire. Historian and filmmaker Gregg Mitman scoured remote archives to unearth a history of promises unfulfilled for the vast numbers of Liberians who toiled on rubber plantations built on taken land. Mitman reveals a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation that reflected Jim Crow America—on African soil. As Firestone reaped fortunes, wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites, fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest, rebellions and, eventually, civil war. A riveting narrative of ecology and disease, of commerce and science, and of racial politics and political maneuvering, Empire of Rubber uncovers the hidden story of a corporate empire whose tentacles reach into the present.