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Capital Hostages: In the Geography of the Crisis

رهائن رأس المال: في جغرافية الأزمة

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Communist geographer Phil A. “Work is the mathematics of the body in motion,” Neil says, and proceeds to analyze in detail the race-inducing activity in the massive logistics centers of the American economy, where he himself has worked:

The calories consumed per shift are linked to the average wage, which is then converted into the most available and affordable unit of energy source – the Big Mac.Under the poverty of capitalism, everything is reduced to necessities, and workers are forced to eat more than half of their weekly earnings from burgers just to have enough calories to work. It is these tangible, everyday experiences that make Phil A.'s articles. Neil is vibrant, radical, concrete and realistic.Starting from Nike sneakers, uprisings, the pandemic experience, or the brutal history of inflation, he analyzes the current state of class struggle, links local political and economic contexts to global structures of capital, and highlights the contradictions of the US interior.

Capital Hostages: In the Geography of the Crisis
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Bibliographic Data

Author
PublisherEdition NautilusWebsite
Countryالمانيا
Primary CategoryEconomy and Development
Published2026
LanguageGerman (DE)
Pages264 pages
EditionFirst
Dimensions12×20
ISBN978-3960545170
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About Phil A. Neel

Phil A. Neil is a geographer and a communist. He grew up in a mobile home in the Siskio Mountains between California and Oregon, relied on himself to make a living through various jobs, participated in uprisings, and was imprisoned as a result. He received his PhD from the University of Washington in Seattle, and currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. His books Hunterland: The New Landscape of Class and Conflict in America were published in 2018, andHillworld: The Human Race and the Planetary Factory was published in 2025.

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