Nan Enstad on Multinational Cigarette Corporations and Jim Crow Capitalism

Nan Enstad on Multinational Cigarette Corporations and Jim Crow Capitalism

Nan Enstad on Multinational Cigarette Corporations and Jim Crow Capitalism

The multinational corporation is a pervasive institution. For example, it's nearly impossible to listen to this show without interacting with one. But what is the history of this thing we call the multinational corporation? And who gets to count as its constituents?

Today, we investigate this topic and how it has been shaped by cigarettes—from the workers who grew the tobacco to those who governed the tobacco companies. And we discuss what this history can tell us about race, gender, region and geography.

Our guest is Nan Enstad. Nan is the Robinson Edwards Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, an affiliate of the Gender and Women's Studies Department and the Afro-American Studies Department, and the current Director of the UW Food Studies Network. She is. the author of Cigarettes Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism.

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