World-Systems Analysis: Theory and MethodologyThe first volume in a new series from SAGE presenting work in the world-systems perspective, a school of social science thought that views the world economy as a single system across time and space. This first volume is a sourcebook reader of the most fundamental work in the field, drawn from Review, the journal most concerned with the work of this perspective, and from volumes in SAGE's Political Economy of the World-System Annuals. |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Patterns of Development of the Modern WorldSystem | 41 |
Notes on Class Analysis and the WorldSystem | 83 |
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abstract accumulation process activities arena axial division basic boundaries Braudel capital accumulation capitalist development capitalist world-economy centers central century Chase-Dunn commodities concept construction continually contradictions core powers core-area core-periphery course cycles cyclical rhythms defined developmentalist discussion distribution division of labor economic effect expansion external Fernand Braudel Center forces formation formulation fundamental growth hegemonic power hegemony historical Hopkins Immanuel Wallerstein income increasing increasingly inquiry integral interpretative interrelated interstate system kinds Kondratieffs labor power logic means of production method methodological modern social change modern world-system movement nation-states observations operation organization particular patterns period peripheral areas political production processes proletarian households question relational networks relations of production relative result secular trends semiperipheral spatial specific stratifying processes subsistence surplus-value temporal theoretical theory tion trade unequal exchange unit of analysis wage workers world-scale world-system perspective world-system studies zones
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