Creating and Transforming Households - The Constraints of the World-Economy (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Modern Capitalism
Release date:	August 1992
First published:	1992
Authors:	Joan Smith • Immanuel Wallerstein
Contributors:	Maria Del Carmen Baerga • Mark Beittel • Kathie Friedman-Kasaba • Randall H. McGuire • William G. Martin • Kathleen Stanley • Lanny Thompson • Cynthia Woodsong
Dimensions:	227 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	320
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-42713-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Labour economics > General
LSN:	0-521-42713-4
Barcode:	9780521427135

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