1. Models for trade and globalization -- 2. A short history of the diamond trade -- 3. A cross-cultural diamond trade network -- 4. Competition from an Ashkenazi kinship network -- 5. The embeddedness of merchants in state and society -- 6. Trade, global history and human agency.
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"The Global Diamond Industry: Economics and Development brings together a collection of papers covering various aspects of the diamond industry including economics, law, history, sociology and development. These volumes are motivated by one objective alone and that is to provide intellectual light where none exists. The diamond industry is one that is long steeped in secrecy and each chapter and even each well researched anecdote helps others to understand this commodity and what are at times mysterious operations of the industry. This first volume presents literature tackling broad issues around the structure of the industry and demand and pricing of diamonds"--
The first history of Jews in the nineteenth-century transatlantic diamond industry, A Brilliant Commodity shows how Jews became key players in the trade from its earliest days-from South Africa to Amsterdam and London to New York-to its place as a lucrative commodity in the global economy.
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Glossary: Diamond industry terms -- 1. Introduction: Showdown at Kinshasa -- 2. Are conflict diamonds forever?: Background to the problem -- 3. The Kimberley Process: Did the lion roar? -- 4. Kimberley at the national level: Fancy footwork? -- 5. Growing teeth: The UN Security Council and international tribunals -- 6. Raging bulls and flyswatters: The networked pyramid model -- 7. The dual networked pyramid model: The pyramid inside the pyramid -- 8. Applying the dual networked pyramid model: Naming, shaming, and faming -- 9. Did you hear something?: Concluding remarks -- Appendix: The Kimberley Process core document.
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Botswana owns a 15 percent share in De Beers, an unprecedented entangling of a sovereign country with a private company. Investigative reporter Khadija Sharife reveals a mutual dependence between the diamond giant, Botswana, and the country's leading party that has perverted democracy and created an opaque revenue system that costs the southern African nation millions of dollars every year.
In Surat, the second largest city of Gujarat and one of its main industrial centres, approx imately 150,000 workers are earning a living in the diamond industry. Especially in the 1960s and 1970s, when the industry grew tremendously, the working and living conditions of diamond cutters were bad. Workshop owners used extreme violence, torture and even murder to discipline workers. After the mid-1980s the situation improved, but even today for many diamond cutters life in Surat's diamond workshops is hard. Despite these condi tions there have never been any strikes or organised forms of mass protest in the history of the diamond industry of Surat. In this article a number of possible reasons for this absence are discussed. One of these is recent developments within the caste to which both diamond cutters and workshop owners belong.