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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 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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PO LITI CAL E CONOMY OF THE WOR LD-SYSTEM ANNUALS
Series Editor: IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
Published in cooperation with the Section on the Political Economy of the World-System of the American Sociological Association About the Series
The intent of this series of annuals is to reflect and inform the intense theoretical and empirical debates about the "political economy of the world-system." These debates assume that the phenomena of the real world cannot be separated into three (or more) categories-political,
LABOR in the Capitalist World-Economy
economic, and social-which can be studied by different methods and in closed spheres. The economy is "institutionally" rooted; the polity is the expression of socioeconomic forces; and "societal" structures are a consequence of politico-economic pressures. The phrase "world-system" also tells us that we believe there is a working social system larger than any state whose operations are themselves a focus of social analysis.
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Charles Bergquist
How states and parties, firms and classes, status groups and social institutions operate within the framework and constraints of the world system is precisely what is debated. These theme-focused annuals will be the outlet for original theoretical and empirical findings of social scientists coming from all the traditional "disciplines." The series will draw upon papers presented at meetings and conferences, as well as papers from those who share in these concerns.
Volumes in this series: Volume 1: Social Change in the Capitalist World Economy (1978)
Volume 7, Political Economy of the World-System Annuals Series Editor: Immanuel Wallerstein
Barbara Hockey Kaplan, Editor Volume 2: The World-System of Capitalism: Past and Present (1979)
Walter
L.
Goldfrank, Editor
Volume 3: Processes of the World-System (1980)
Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein, Editors Volume 4: Dynamics of World Development (1981)
Richard Rubinson, Editor Volume 5: Ascent and Decline in the World-System (1982)
Edward Friedman, Editor Volume 6: Crises in the World-System (1983) Albert Bergesen, Editor Volume 7: Labor in the Capitalist World-Economy (1984)
Charles Bergquist, Editor
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CONTENTS
Placing Labor at the Center: Introduction
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PART 1: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY
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