This is a long overdue addition to a series of books and edited collections spawned initially from Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System. These 12 `theoretically informed case studies' from a 1987 conference add considerable insight to the heavy emphasis of the World-Systems approaches on macroeconomic determinism with the inclusion of ideological and cultural factors. Most cases address how capital uses social categories to cheapen industrial labor costs in Asia and the US. Two illuminating chapters analyze the `minoritization of immigrants' and variations in masculinity norms as aspects of this labor cheapening process. Choice
A collection of papers presented at the Eleventh Annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference, this volume illustrates the degree to which fundamental processes of the world-system entail racist and sexist practices. The contributors have taken as their focus the attempt to both explain--in social, political, or historical terms--the pervasiveness of racism and sexism and trace the relationship between the two and the organization of the contemporary political economy. Taken together, their papers offer a more coherent treatment of the problem than has heretofore been available. By integrating an understanding of racial and sexual oppression with that of other processes that constitute the world-economy they offer new insights into the workings of the world-system and new hope for concerted efforts to eliminate racism and sexism.
Many of the essays included here take the form of theoretically informed case studies. Detailed historical works explore such issues as labor force formation in the New York garment industry in the late 19th and early 20th century and competition in the world textile industry in the latter half of the 1880s. A critical analysis of the construction of census categories and an examination of the myths of differential ethnic success provide real-world examples of discrimination and its effects. A number of papers focus on the implications of our understanding of racial and sexual oppression for political struggle, while others assess the impact of women's exclusion from the workforce on power relationships in the home. Two major theoretical pieces address the issues in more general terms, emphasizing the circumstances under which racism and sexism are created and recreated in various contexts. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a necessary and enlightening re-examination of the role of race and gender in the world-economy.
Show moreThis is a long overdue addition to a series of books and edited collections spawned initially from Immanuel Wallerstein's The Modern World-System. These 12 `theoretically informed case studies' from a 1987 conference add considerable insight to the heavy emphasis of the World-Systems approaches on macroeconomic determinism with the inclusion of ideological and cultural factors. Most cases address how capital uses social categories to cheapen industrial labor costs in Asia and the US. Two illuminating chapters analyze the `minoritization of immigrants' and variations in masculinity norms as aspects of this labor cheapening process. Choice
A collection of papers presented at the Eleventh Annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference, this volume illustrates the degree to which fundamental processes of the world-system entail racist and sexist practices. The contributors have taken as their focus the attempt to both explain--in social, political, or historical terms--the pervasiveness of racism and sexism and trace the relationship between the two and the organization of the contemporary political economy. Taken together, their papers offer a more coherent treatment of the problem than has heretofore been available. By integrating an understanding of racial and sexual oppression with that of other processes that constitute the world-economy they offer new insights into the workings of the world-system and new hope for concerted efforts to eliminate racism and sexism.
Many of the essays included here take the form of theoretically informed case studies. Detailed historical works explore such issues as labor force formation in the New York garment industry in the late 19th and early 20th century and competition in the world textile industry in the latter half of the 1880s. A critical analysis of the construction of census categories and an examination of the myths of differential ethnic success provide real-world examples of discrimination and its effects. A number of papers focus on the implications of our understanding of racial and sexual oppression for political struggle, while others assess the impact of women's exclusion from the workforce on power relationships in the home. Two major theoretical pieces address the issues in more general terms, emphasizing the circumstances under which racism and sexism are created and recreated in various contexts. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a necessary and enlightening re-examination of the role of race and gender in the world-economy.
Show moreGeneral Orientation
The Ideological Tensions of Capitalism: Universalism versus Racism
and Sexism by Immanuel Wallerstein
Cultural Parameters of Sexism and Racism in the International
Division of Labor by June Nash
The World-System and the Creation of Race and Gender
Minorities and the World-System: Theoretical and Political
Implications of the Internationalization of Minorities by Martha E.
Gimenez
Images of Docility: Asian Women and World-Economy by Nancy Melissa
Lutz
Capital and Gender in the Third World: Theoretical Analysis of the
Current Crisis by Peter F. Bell
"A Tailor is Nothing Without a Wife, and Very Often a Child":
Gender and Labor Force Formation in the New York Garment Industry,
1880-1920 by Kathie Friedman Kasaba
Race and Gender and the Creation of Work in the
World-System
Gender Relations in the World-Economy: Competition in the Textile
Industry, 1850-1900 by Ann E. Forsythe and Roberto P.
Korzeniewicz
Female Resistance to Marginalization: The Igbo Women's War of 1929
by Kathryn B. Ward
Degraded Work and Devalued Labor: The Proletarianization of Women
in the Semiconductor Industry by John Horton and Eun-Jin Lee
"Ethnicity" and "Race" in the Small Business Literature: Some
Lessons from the World-Systems Perspective by Richard Williams
Uneven Development and the Origins of Split Labor Market
Discrimination: A Comparision of Black, Chinese, and Mexican
Immigrant Minorities in the United States by Terry Boswell and
David Jorjani
Asian-American Success in Hawaii: Myth, Reality, or Artifact of
Women's Labor by James Geschwender and Rita Carroll-Seguin
Bibliography
Index
JOAN SMITH is Professor of Sociology and a Research Associate at
the Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York at
Binghamton.
JANE COLLINS is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State
University of New York at Binghamton.
TERENCE K. HOPKINS is Director of Doctoral Studies in Sociology at
the State University of New York at Binghamton and Board Member of
the university's Fernand Braudel Center.
AKBAR MUHAMMAD is Associate Professor of African and Islamic
History at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
?. . . The book is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning
literature on world-systemic analysis.?-Contemporary Sociology
?Many of the essays included in this collection take the form of
theoretically-informed case studies. The authors review the world
from a Marxist perspective in which racism and sexism are
considered the driving force behind the organization of the
contemporary political economy.?-Abstracts of Development
Studies
?This is a long-overdue addition to a series of books and edited
collections spawned initially from Immanuel Wallerstein's The
Modern World-System. These 12 theoretically informed case studies'
from a 1987 conference add considerable insight to the heavy
emphasis of the World-Systems Approaches on macroeconomic
determinism with the inclusion of ideological and cultural factors.
Most cases address how capital uses social categories to cheapen
industrial labor costs in Asia and the US. Two illuminating
chapters analyze the minoritization of immigrants' and variations
in masculinity norms as aspects of this labor cheapening process.
The book approaches Lourdes Beneria's Women and Development: The
Sexual Division of Labor in Rural Societies (1982) and is similar
to Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor, ed. by June
Nash and M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (1983), but Smith's collection
is more closely wedded to World-Systems perspectives. Suitable for
libraries serving upper-division undergraduate and graduate
students.?-Choice
." . . The book is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning
literature on world-systemic analysis."-Contemporary Sociology
"Many of the essays included in this collection take the form of
theoretically-informed case studies. The authors review the world
from a Marxist perspective in which racism and sexism are
considered the driving force behind the organization of the
contemporary political economy."-Abstracts of Development
Studies
"This is a long-overdue addition to a series of books and edited
collections spawned initially from Immanuel Wallerstein's The
Modern World-System. These 12 theoretically informed case studies'
from a 1987 conference add considerable insight to the heavy
emphasis of the World-Systems Approaches on macroeconomic
determinism with the inclusion of ideological and cultural factors.
Most cases address how capital uses social categories to cheapen
industrial labor costs in Asia and the US. Two illuminating
chapters analyze the minoritization of immigrants' and variations
in masculinity norms as aspects of this labor cheapening process.
The book approaches Lourdes Beneria's Women and Development: The
Sexual Division of Labor in Rural Societies (1982) and is similar
to Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor, ed. by June
Nash and M. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (1983), but Smith's collection
is more closely wedded to World-Systems perspectives. Suitable for
libraries serving upper-division undergraduate and graduate
students."-Choice
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