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 of capital accumulation process activities axial division basic boundaries capital accumulation capitalist development capitalist world-economy centers central century commodities competition concept continually contradictions core countries core powers core-area core-periphery course cycles cyclical rhythms defined distribution division of labor economic effect expansion forces formation formulation fundamental growth hegemonic hegemonic power historical Hopkins Immanuel Wallerstein income increasing increasingly inquiry integral interrelated interstate system Kenneth Barr kinds Kondratieffs labor power logistics means of production mechanism methodological modern social change modern world-system movement observations operation organization overall particular patterns period peripheral areas political production processes question relational networks relations of production relative reproduce result secular trends semiperipheral specific stratification stratifying processes structural transformation subsistence surplus surplus-value theoretical theory tion trade unequal exchange unit of analysis wage wage-levels Wallerstein whole workers world-scale world-system perspective world-system studies zones
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