Seasons of Capitalism: Human and Non-Human Nature in the Making of Lebanon’s Silk Industry

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13 juillet 2021

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Max Weber Stiftung, « Seasons of Capitalism: Human and Non-Human Nature in the Making of Lebanon’s Silk Industry », TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, ID : 10.58079/ut24

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By Graham Auman Pitts Capitalism had it seasons in late-Ottoman Mount Lebanon. Each spring, the families that tilled orchards of mulberries purchased the eggs they needed on c­­­­­redit. Mulberry leaves nourished the eggs, which hatched and began to spin their cocoons once the temperature was reliably above 16° Celsius. In June, packs of mules thronged Lebanon’s mountain roads, bringing the cocoons to the factories where they would be processed by a predominantly female force of wage-labor...

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