Contemporary Capitalisms Road Through the U.S. South
Hostility to unions, lax environmental regulations, and \u2013- perhaps less obviously \u2013- far flung rural communities: all of these helped give birth to our express-delivery, buy-on-credit economy. Environmental historian Bart Elmore considers the importance of the American South to the genesis, reach, and ecological damage of five outsized corporations: Walmart, Coca-Cola, FedEx, Bank of America, and Delta Airlines. \nResources:\nBart Elmore, Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet University of North Carolina Press, 2023\nThe post Contemporary Capitalism\u2019s Road Through the U.S. South appeared first on KPFA.