"What is the place of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea valued for its … taste and value mass-market black tea, one of the world's most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with … ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea plantation workers, Besky shows how the …

Tea remains the world's most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented … Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical "divergence" between the West and the …, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Further …