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