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

by Joan Smith and Immanuel Wallerstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521427134
• ISBN13: 9780521427135
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"