Households and the world-economy

304 Pages·1984·12.216 MB·English

by  Joan Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein, Hans-Dieter Evers (eds.)

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HOUSEHOLDS
AND THE WORLD-ECONOMY
EXPLORATIONS IN THE WORLD ECONOMY:
Publications of the Fernand Braude! Center
Series Editor:
Immanuel Wallerstein
Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems,
and Civilizations
Volumes in this series:
1. WORLD-SYSTEMS ANALYSIS: Theory and Methodology
edited by Terence K. Hopkins, Immanuel Wallerstein and Associates
2. LABOR IN THE WORLD SOCIAL STRUCTURE
edited by Immanuel Wallerstein
3. HOUSEHOLDS AND THE WORLD-ECONOMY
edited by Joan Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein, Hans-Dieter Evers
Explorations in the World-Economy:
Publications of the Fernand Braudel Center
Volume 3
HOUSEHOLDS AND
THE WORLD-ECONOMY
Joan Smith
Immanuel Wallerstein
Hans-Dieter Evers
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Main entry under title:
Households and the world-economy.
(Explorations in the world-economy ; v. 3)
1. Households—Economic aspects—Addresses, essays,
lectures. 2. Capitalism—Addresses, essays, lectures.
I. Smith, Joan, 1935- . II. Wallerstein, Immanuel
Maurice, 1930- . III. Evers, Hans-Dieter. IV. Series.
HB199.H645 1984 339.2'2 84-4875
ISBN 0-8039-2290-6
FIRST PRINTING
Contents
Introduction
Joan Smith
Immanuel Wallerstein
Hans-Dieter Evers
PART I HOUSEHOLDS, SUBSISTENCE, AND
THE CAPITALIST WORLD-ECONOMY
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
1. Household Structures and Labor-Force
Formation in the Capitalist World-Economy
Immanuel Wallerstein
x 2. Subsistence Reproduction:
A Framework for Analysis
Hans-Dieter Evers
Wolfgang Clauss
Diana Wong
Jg 3. Households as Income-Pooling Units
Kathie Friedman
4. The Limits of Using the Household
as a Unit of Analysis
Diana Wong
5. Nonwage Labor and Subsistence
Joan Smith
6. Households, Modes of Living,
and Production Systems
Georg Stauth
7. Development and Underdevelopment of
Household-Based Production in Europe
Tilman Schiel
8. The Proletarian Is Dead;
Long Live the Housewife?
Claudia von Werlhof
PART II HOUSEHOLDS, THE STATE, AND
ACCUMULATION PROCESSES
9. Beyond the Peasant to Proletarian Debate:
African Household Formation in South Africa
William G. Martin 151
10. Household Economy and Financial Capital:
The Case of Passbook Savings in Brazil
Eva Machado Barbosa 168
11. The Contribution of Public Goods to Household
Reproduction: Case Study from Brazil
Johannes Augel 173
12. State, Collective, and Household: The Process
of Accumulation in China, 1949-65
Lanny Thompson 180
13. Gender Division within the U.S. Working Class:
Households in the Philadelphia Area, 1870-1945
Torry Dickinson 199
PART III INTERNAL STRUCTURE
OF HOUSEHOLDS
14. Working or Helping? London Working-Class
Children in the Domestic Economy
Anna Davin 215
15. Wages, Consumption, and Survival: Working-
Class Households in Puerto Rico in the 1930’s
Maria del Carmen Baerga 233
16. Towards a Theory of
the Sexual Divison of Labor
Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen 252
17. Conflicts Inside and Outside the Household:
A West African Case Study
Georg Elwert 272
Index 297