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Empty vessel : the story of the global economy in one ship

Kumekawa, Ian, author

2025

Overview

Here is a history of the world economy over the last fifty years told through the life of a single ship. Capitalism. International law. Imperial decline. National sovereignty. Inflation. Gentrification. Mass incarceration. Busts. Racism. Greed. 'Empty Vessel' is the story of globalism in one boat. First built as a Swedish offshore oil rig in the 1970s, it went on to house British soldiers in the Falklands War in the 1980s, prisoners from Riker's Island in New York's East River in the 1990s,Volkswagen factory employees in Germany in the 2000s, and Nigerian oil workers off the coast of Africa in the 2010s. In each of its lives it arrived as an empty vessel, filled at the behest of both public and private interests, for purposes of war, incarceration, and commerce - connecting people thousands of miles apart, all shaped by the same global economic transformations.

• Publisher: John Murray
• Subject: Shipping Case studies. / Barges Sweden Economic aspects Case studies. / International trade. / Transport.
• ISBN: 9781399816229

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HE571 .K798 2025	1	BOOK	WAITINSERT