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The Planetary Factory

Phil A. Neel
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An archive, blog, and cartographic workshop examining the physical and political landscapes produced by global value chains.

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    Phil A. Neel is a communist geographer. He is the author of Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict and Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory.

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