Labor in the Capitalist World-Economy (Political Economy of the World-System Annuals)

Contents
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Placing Labor at the Center: Introduction by Charles Bergquist
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PART 1: Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Labor in the World-System......Page 10
1. The Contours of Production Politics by Michael Burawoy......Page 11
Returning Politics to Production......Page 12
From Early to Advanced Capitalism......Page 16
State Socialism......Page 19
Peripheral Societies......Page 21
Conclusion......Page 23
2. The Exploitation of Labor in the Appropriation of Nature: Toward an Energy Theory of Value by Stephen G. Bunker......Page 24
Modes of Extraction and the Creation of Extreme Peripheries......Page 26
Toward an Energy Calculus of Value......Page 30
Implications of an Energy Theory of Value for Theories of Unequal Exchange......Page 33
Periodization and Ecological Succession......Page 35
3. The World-System since 1950: What Has Really Changed? by Christopher K. Chase-Dunn......Page 37
System Cycles......Page 38
System Trends......Page 39
The Internationalization of Capital......Page 40
The New International Division of Labor......Page 43
World Class and World State Formation......Page 47
The Socialist World-System: Socialist States and the Domino Theory......Page 48
Discussion and Conclusion......Page 49
PART 2: Labor Systems in an Evolving Capitalist World Order......Page 52
4. British Colonialism and Punjabi Labor by Richard G. Fox......Page 53
Colonial India: Development and Contradictions......Page 54
Export Crops, Petty Commodity Production, and Punjab's Underdevelopment......Page 56
State Capitalism and the Canal Colonies......Page 58
Conclusion: Contradicitons and Resistance in the Punjab......Page 64
5. Labor and International Capital in the Making of a Peripheral Social Formation: Economic Transformations in Guatemala, 1850-1980 by Carol A. Smith......Page 67
6. Cycles, Trends, or Transformations? Black Labor Migration to the South African Gold Mines by William G. Martin......Page 78
Gold Mining as a Production Process in the World-Economy......Page 80
Fluctuations in Levels and Sources of Labor Supply......Page 84
Reprise: Cyclical, Secular, or Transformational Changes?......Page 87
PART 3: Working Class Culture, Organization, and Protest......Page 90
7. Labor Movements and Capital Migration: The United States and Western Europe in World-Historical Perspective by Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver......Page 91
Divergent Patterns of the Interwar Labor Movement......Page 92
The Rise of Workplace Bargaining Power......Page 95
The Containment of Workplace Bargaining Power......Page 100
Convergent Patterns of the Postwar Labor Movement......Page 103
8. The Textile Industry and Working Class Culture by Alice Ingerson......Page 108
The Textile Industry......Page 109
The Family in Working Class Culture: From Patterns of Authority to Demography......Page 110
Politics in Working Class Culture: From Subsistence to State Patronage......Page 114
Conclusion......Page 117
9. The Impact of Worldwide Industrial Restructuring on a New England Community by June Nash......Page 121
The 1916 Strike......Page 122
Union Organization and the Post-World War II Strike......Page 123
Anticommunism and the Cold War Strikes......Page 125
The 1969 Strike......Page 126
Industrial Strikes in Neighboring Cities......Page 127
Wesco Electric Company
Strike......Page 128
Structural Changes in Industrial Relations......Page 129
10. Export Manufacturing and Labor: The Asian Case by Frederic Deyo......Page 133
World Economic Linkages and Third World Labor Movements......Page 136
Economic Growth in the Gang of Four......Page 137
The Politics of Labor Demobilization in Asia......Page 138
EOI and the Structural Demobilization of Labor: Light Industry......Page 140
Labor and Emergent Economic Trends......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 142
11. The Role of Workers in Boycott Movements, 1905-1931: A Comparison of India and China by Nesar Ahmad and Lawrence Weiss......Page 144
The First Boycotts (Pre-1905 and 1905)......Page 145
Noncooperation Movement of 1920......Page 146
Civil Disobedience Movement, 1930......Page 147
Summary......Page 148
The Early Boycotts (1905-1924)......Page 149
The Great Anti-British and Anti-Japanese Boycotts of 1925-1926......Page 151
Conclusion......Page 153
Notes on the Contributors
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