This book examines the intimate link between the micro-structures of households and the structures of the world-economy at a global level. It seeks to explain differences in wage levels for work of comparable productivity by examining the different structures of households as "income-pooling units." The authors argue that the boundaries and sources of income of households are molded by the changing patterns of the world-economy, but are also modes of defense against its pressures. Empirical data is drawn from eight local regions in three different zones: the United States, Mexico and southern Africa.
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"This book is a useful sourcebook for those interested iin the specific regions of the world it covers. Perhaps more importantly, it provides empirical evidence to confirm that even in the United States, the classic Fordist worker has existed only during very short periods, while the economic contribution of other members of the household has always been a crucial factor in their reproduction." Belinda Leach, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
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The structures of households are examined as "income-pooling units" to explain differences in wage levels for work of comparable productivity and reveal the intimate link between the micro-structures of households and the structures of the world-economy at a global level.
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The idea that there exists an "informal sector" of economic activity is a relatively new one. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sustainable minimum level, cuartel mayor, state transfer income, waged income, state transfer payments, needlework industry, industrial home work, labor force formation, multiple wage earners, multiple earners, proletarian households, obrero mexicano, more wage earners, subsistence cultivation, real household income, foundry products, subsistence income, market income, consumption fund, average manufacturing wage, household patterns, wage contribution, one wage earner, wage labor force, waged labor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, New York City, Broome County, Mexico City, United States, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rico, First World War, Second World War, Planning Department, Great Britain, Mayor's Unemployment Committee, New Deal, Department of Labor, Russian Jewish, Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Bureau of Market Research, Immigration Commission, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Human Resources, Transvaal Colony, Colonial Office, Great Society, Latin America, Native Economic Commission New!
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The idea that there exists an "informal sector" of economic activity is a relatively new one. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sustainable minimum level, cuartel mayor, state transfer income, waged income, state transfer payments, needlework industry, industrial home work, labor force formation, multiple wage earners, multiple earners, proletarian households, obrero mexicano, more wage earners, subsistence cultivation, real household income, foundry products, subsistence income, market income, consumption fund, average manufacturing wage, household patterns, wage contribution, one wage earner, wage labor force, waged labor Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, New York City, Broome County, Mexico City, United States, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rico, First World War, Second World War, Planning Department, Great Britain, Mayor's Unemployment Committee, New Deal, Department of Labor, Russian Jewish, Bureau of Foreign Commerce, Bureau of Market Research, Immigration Commission, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Human Resources, Transvaal Colony, Colonial Office, Great Society, Latin America, Native Economic Commission New!
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- Households and the World-Economy (Explorations in the World Economy) by Joan K. Smith on 4 pages
- Second World War (What Families Were Like) by Fiona Reynoldson on page 6, and page 34
- Puerto Rico (Modern World Nations) by Jose Javier Lopez on page 81, and Back Matter
- Social Change: The Colonial Situation by Immanuel Wallerstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women, Work and Family by Louise A. Tilly in Back Matter
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- The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century: Global Processes, Antisystemic Movements, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge by Ramon Grosfoguel on 4 pages
- The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change by J. Timmons Roberts on page 150, and page 151
- The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change by J. Timmons Roberts on page 150, and page 151
- Street Foods: Urban Food and Employment in Developing Countries by Irene Tinker in Back Matter
- Informalization: Process and Structure by Professor Faruk Tabak on page 195
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