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Logistics and power : supply chains from slavery to space

Zieger, Susan

2025

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Description *Logistics and power : supply chains from slavery to space / Susan Zieger
Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2025
XII, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9780520402874
Author
Zieger, Susan
Subjects AZIENDE - Acquisti - Gestione - Automazione
AZIENDE - Responsabilità sociale
CAPITALISMO - Aspetti sociali - Sec. 21.
Dewey 658.72 GESTIONE DEI MATERIALI. APPROVVIGIONAMENTO
Publication place Oakland
Publication year 2025
Titolo dell'opera Logistics and power
Abstract di polo Movement is the lifeblood of capital, even more so than growth. If goods, people, and information don't flow, then profits don't either. Ensuring that laborers, shipping containers, media, commercially valuable data, and much else are in the right place at the right time demands a subtle choreography. Enter logistics.
Susan Zieger argues that logistics is the foundation of power in our time. Blending detailed historical research with real-life stories that crystallize the human and ecological consequences of supply chains, Logistics and Power shows how the pursuit of efficient movement has come to organize economies while disordering societies and selves. Logistics emerges as the key to consumerism and the experience of work. It justifies corporate and police surveillance, illuminates patterns of migration and exploitation, and explains why the oceans are clotted with plastic. It is in the sphere of logistics that capitalist motives are most dramatically in tension with planetary needs.
A headfirst encounter with the obscure forces subordinating all goals below those of capital, Logistics and Power points the way to an alternative: a mindful and politically attentive kind of movement compatible with human thriving.