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Work - The Last 1,000 Years
Andrea Komlosy; Translated by Jacob Watson, Loren Balhorn
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Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we
examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to
different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour
history from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, she
sheds light on the complex coexistence of multiple forms of labour
(paid/unpaid, free/ unfree, with various forms of legal regulation
and social protection and so on) on the local and the world levels.
Combining this global approach with a gender perspective opens our
eyes to the varieties of work and labour and their combination in
households and commodity chains across the planet-processes that
enable capital accumulation not only by extracting surplus value
from wage-labour, but also through other forms of value transfer,
realized by tapping into households' subsistence production,
informal occupation and makeshift employment. As the debate about
work and its supposed disappearance intensifies, Komlosy's book
provides a crucial shift in the angle of vision.
During its 500-year history, the modern world-system has seen
several shifts in hegemony. Yet, since the decline of the U.S. in
the 1970s, no single core power has attained a hegemonic position
in an increasingly polarized world. As income inequalities have
become more pronounced in core countries, especially in the U.S.
and the U.K., global inequalities emerged as a "new" topic of
social scientific scholarship, ignoring the constant move toward
polarization that has been characteristic of the entire modern
world-system. At the same time, the rise of new states (most
notably, the BRICS) and the relative economic growth of particular
regions (especially East Asia) have prompted speculations about the
next hegemon that largely disregard both the longue duree of
hegemonic shifts and the constraints that regional differentiations
place on the concentration of capital and geopolitical power in one
location. Authors in this book place the issue of rising
inequalities at the center of their analyses. They explore the
concept and reality of semiperipheries in the 21st century
world-system, the role of the state and of transnational migration
in current patterns of global stratification, types of catching-up
development and new spatial configurations of inequality in
Europe's Eastern periphery as well as the prospects for the Global
Left in the new systemic order. The book links novel theoretical
debates on the rise of global inequalities to methodologically
innovative approaches to the urgent task of addressing them.
During its 500-year history, the modern world-system has seen
several shifts in hegemony. Yet, since the decline of the U.S. in
the 1970s, no single core power has attained a hegemonic position
in an increasingly polarized world. As income inequalities have
become more pronounced in core countries, especially in the U.S.
and the U.K., global inequalities emerged as a "new" topic of
social scientific scholarship, ignoring the constant move toward
polarization that has been characteristic of the entire modern
world-system. At the same time, the rise of new states (most
notably, the BRICS) and the relative economic growth of particular
regions (especially East Asia) have prompted speculations about the
next hegemon that largely disregard both the longue duree of
hegemonic shifts and the constraints that regional differentiations
place on the concentration of capital and geopolitical power in one
location. Authors in this book place the issue of rising
inequalities at the center of their analyses. They explore the
concept and reality of semiperipheries in the 21st century
world-system, the role of the state and of transnational migration
in current patterns of global stratification, types of catching-up
development and new spatial configurations of inequality in
Europe's Eastern periphery as well as the prospects for the Global
Left in the new systemic order. The book links novel theoretical
debates on the rise of global inequalities to methodologically
innovative approaches to the urgent task of addressing them.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western
conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment.
But this limited perspective contrasted sharply with the personal
experience of most people in the world-whether in colonies,
developing countries or in the industrializing world. Moreover,
from a feminist perspective, reducing work and the production of
value to remunerated employment has never been convincing. Andrea
Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine
it closely, work changes its meanings according to different
historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history from
the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, she sheds light on
the complex coexistence of multiple forms of labour (paid/unpaid,
free/ unfree, with various forms of legal regulation and social
protection and so on) on the local and the world levels. Combining
this global approach with a gender perspective opens our eyes to
the varieties of work and labour and their combination in
households and commodity chains across the planet-processes that
enable capital accumulation not only by extracting surplus value
from wage-labour, but also through other forms of value transfer,
realized by tapping into households' subsistence production,
informal occupation and makeshift employment. As the debate about
work and its supposed disappearance intensifies, Komlosy's book
provides a crucial shift in the angle of vision.
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