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...
This is a long overdue addition to a series of books and edited collections spawned initially from Immanuel Wallerstein's "The Modern World-System....