Creating and Transforming Households : The Constraints of the World-Economy Paperback / softback
by Joan (University of Vermont) Smith, Immanuel (State University of New York, Binghamton) Wallerstein
Part of the Studies in Modern Capitalism series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book, first published in 1992, seeks an explanation of the pattern of sharp discrepancy of wage levels across the world-economy for work of comparable productivity.
It explores how far such differences can be explained by the different structures of households as 'income-pooling units', examining three key variables: location in the core or periphery of the world-economy; periods of expansion versus periods of contraction in the world-economy; and secular transformation over time.
The authors argue that both the boundaries of households and their sources of income are molded by the changing patterns of the world-economy, but are also modes of defense against its pressures.
Drawing empirical data from eight local regions in three different zones - the United States, Mexico and southern Africa - this book presents a systematic and original approach to the intimate link between the micro-structures of households and the structures of the capitalist world-economy at a global level.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 16 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/08/1992
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- ISBN:9780521427135
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:320 pages, 16 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/08/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521427135
