The new master of globalization: Logistics

Abstract

La logistique et ses monstres is a work of discussion, reflection, and critique that echoes the collective effort undertaken in Globalization from Below: The World’s Other Economy (Mathews, Lins Ribeiro, and Alba Vega, 2012). Both books highlight little-visible dimensions of globalization. Globalization from Below reveals the strength of an economy not driven by large corporations, but powered by billions of small traders, following multiple routes —in China, Africa, Latin America, and also in flea markets in Canada and the United States— to construct another form of globalization. La logistique et ses monstres, for its part, focuses on how every step of the economic process —production, circulation, commercialization, disposal, recycling, refurbishment, renewed circulation, etc.— is now governed by the logistics revolution.