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Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili

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Containerisation - It Was a Mean of Domesticating Labor

containerisation was intended as a means of defanging or domesticating labor. And putting everything in a locked container, of course, stopped pilfering. The second thing that was quite significant was the kind of dependence less on labor and now more on big machines That could shift these big, huge boxes initial they were 20 feet e containers.

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