Creating and Transforming Households - The Constraints of the World-Economy

Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 1992! examines the intimate link between the micro-structures of households and the structures of the world-economy at a global level. It seeks to explain differences in wage levels for work of comparable productivity by examining the different structures of households as 'income-pooling units'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Joan Smith and Immanuel Wallerstein; 1. Household as an institution of the world-economy Immanuel Wallerstein and Joan Smith; 2. The United States Kathie Friedman Kasada; (a) The Detroit Story: the crucible of Fordism Kathleen Stanley and Joan Smith; (b) New York City: the underside of the world's capital Kathie Friedman Kasada; (c) Binghamton: the secrets of a backwater Randall H. McGuire and Cynthia Woodsong; (d) Puerto Rico: from colony to colony Maria Del Carmen Baega; 3. Mexico Lanny Thompson; (a) Mexico City: the slow rise of wage-centered households Lanny Thompson; (b) Central Mexico: the decline of subsistence and the rise of poverty Lanny Thompson; 4. Southern Africa Mark Beittel; (a) The Witwatersrand: black households, white households Mark Beittel; (b) Lesotho: the creation of the households William G. Martin; 5. Core-periphery and household structures Immanuel Wallerstein and Joan Smith; Postscript on method Joan Smith and Jamie Sudler; Bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Wallerstein Immanuel, Smith Joan, Joan Smith, Joan Wallerstein Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein
• Mitarbeit: Joan Smith (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.08.1992
• EAN: 9780521427135
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42713-5
• Seiten: 320
• Serien: Studies in Modern Capitalism; Studies in Modern Capitalism
• Themen: Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Volkswirtschaft; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General