Creating and Transforming Households: The Constraints of the World-Economy

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.

Author: Joan Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/28/1992
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.01w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780521427135

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