Creating & Transforming Househ (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521415521)

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
ISBN-10: 0521415527
ISBN-13: 9780521415521
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/28/1992
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d