Title Page ; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Global Rubber and Tire Companies; Introduction: Why Rubber?; Chapter 1 Race, Migration, and Labor; "Wild Rubber" and Early Industry; "Wild Rubber" and Empire; Plantations' Progress: "Rationality and Efficiency"; Plantation Hierarchies; Race and Industry in the United States and Europe; READING; Working and Living on the Mimot Plantation in Cambodia; Notes; Chapter 2 Women and Gender on Plantations and in Factories ; Gendering the Jungle and the Plantation; Asian Women on Plantations; European Women and Racism. The Colonizing WomanGendered Production in the United States and Europe; Rubber and Sex in Indochine; READING; Women Workers, Gender, and Beatings; Notes; Chapter 3 Demand and Everyday Consumption ; Everyday Consumption on Southeast Asian Plantations; Class and Consumption in North America and Europe; Race and Consumption in Europe and North America; Gender and Consumption in Europe and North America; Gendering Reproduction; READING; The Romance and Drama of the Rubber Industry, Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.; Notes; Chapter 4 World Wars, Nationalism, and Imperialism ; World War I. "See America First" on "Good Roads"Flying for the Nation; Restricting Rubber in the Wake of War; American Assertions: Herbert Hoover and US Trade; Firestone and Friends; Firestone in Liberia; Germany: Colonies and Chemicals; World War II and the US Scramble for Rubber; Nazi Racism and Buna at Auschwitz; Imperialism and Nationalism in the Wake of World War II; READING; Life, Work, and Death at Buna Monowitz; Notes; Chapter 5 Resistance and Independence ; Plantations and Resistance; Global Economic Crisis and Plantation Labor; Success of the Smallholders; Plantations under the Japanese. Independence and DecolonizationUnited Rubber Workers; READING; Describing Smallholders in the Dutch East Indies; READING; Explaining Indigenous Resistance; Notes; Conclusion: Forgetting and Remembering Rubber; Suggested Readings; Index; EULA.