Supply chain capitalism exploits heterogeneous local practices rather than flattening them

Evidence

Warehouses in Lehigh Valley—and throughout the United States—are representative of increasing American reliance on what anthropologist Anna Tsing terms “supply chain capitalism,” an economic structure that is simultaneously “big”—meaning operating at a global, seemingly totalizing scale—but also reliant on linking heterogeneous industries, exploiting conflicts and differences that emerge from the sheer diversity of methods through which local practices are incorporated into the global economy. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 285

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Anna Tsing’s ‘supply chain capitalism’ — a key concept for the reader’s Corpocene explanation as the warehouse infrastructure’s global logic.
• XREF: connects to: Data-driven logistics extend scientific management to the whole social domain, not just factories — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 103; Capitalism profits most by leaving parts of the production chain uncommodified