Inside container economies

This introduction proposes an anthropology of global cargo circulation by placing the maritime shipping industry at center capitalism. With “container economies” we refer to that is sustained undervalued labor force, dependent upon unstable logistics infrastructures and driven speculative capital. Container economies, argue, are produced adding, moving, destroying value through supply chain. In this introduction, reflect implications containerization its wider consequences for labor. We argue best understood taking into account their networks dependency expressed kinship relations, ethnicity coexisting regimes value.