Labor In The Capitalist World-economy (political Economy Of The World-system Annuals)

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Since the second world war, the World System approach to modern world history has failed to come to terms with the meaning of the struggles of organized working people in the capitalist world economy.The essays in this volume, evolving from papers presented at the Seventh Political Economy of the World System Conference in April 1983, take important steps toward the goal of placing labour at the centre of world system analysis in order to emphasize the great importance of labour movements.The contributors examine the evolving relationship between labour, capital, and the state and look at the implications of these changes in the world economy for class organized labour.

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  • Year: 1,984

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  • Language: English

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  • Toc: Copywright......Page 3 Contents......Page 4 Placing Labor at the Center: Introduction(CHARLES BERGQUIST)......Page 6 PART 1: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF LABOR IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM......Page 20 1. The Contours of Production Politics(MICHAEL BURA WOY)......Page 22 2. The Exploitation of Labor in the Appropriation of Nature: Toward an Energy Theory of Value(STEP HEN G. BUNKER)......Page 48 3. The World-System Since 1950:What Has Really Changed?(CHRISTOPHER K. CHASE-DUNN)......Page 74 PART 2: LABOR SYSTEMS IN AN EVOLVINGCAPITALIST WORLD ORDER......Page 104 4. British Colonialism and Punjabi Labor(RICHARD G. FOX)......Page 106 5. Labor and International Capital in the Making of a Peripheral S ocial Formation:Economic Transformations in Guatemala, 1850-1980(CAROL A. SMITH)......Page 134 6. Cycles, Trends, or Transformations? Black Labor Migration to the S outh African Gold Mines(WILLIAM G. MARTIN)......Page 156 PART 3: WORKING CLASS CULTURE,ORGANIZATION, AND PROTEST......Page 180 7. Labor Movements and Capital Migration:The United States and Western Europe in W orld-Historical Perspective(GIOVANNI ARRIGHI and BEVERLY J. SILVER)......Page 182 8. The Textile Industry and Working Class Culture(ALICE INGERSON)......Page 216 9. The Impact of Worldwide Industrial Restructuring on a New England Community(JUNE NASH)......Page 242 10. Export Manufacturing and Labor:The Asian Case(FREDERIC DEYO)......Page 266 11. The Role of Workers in Boycott Movements, 1905-1931: A Comparison of India and China(NESAR AHMAD and LAWRENCE WEISS)......Page 288 Notes on the Contributors......Page 309