Overview
- Explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system
- Analyzes various historical periods of hegemony in the capitalist world-system
- Demonstrates how capital has been deeply implicated in the organization of labor migrations
Part of the book series: World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures (WSEGF)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Migration in the world-system
- Migration and economic restructuring
- Hegemony
- Capitalist world-system
- Capitalism
- Monopoly capital
- Metropolitan development
- Work segmentation and labor migration
- Capitalist world-economy
- World history
- World-System
- Political economy
- World-systems sociology
- World-system theory
- Wallerstein
- Hegemony and Migration
- European Medieval Wool Industry
About this book
This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system. It presents comprehensive case studies on various historical periods of hegemony recognized by world-system theory: the Dutch hegemony (1625-1675), British hegemony (1815-1873), and US hegemony (1945-1970). Moreover, the book identifies an earlier period of economic dominance in Western Europe when merchant-bankers from Florence dominated the regional wool trade in the early thirteenth century. In these four intervals of dominance, i.e., from the medieval period to the late twentieth century, capital and labor migration formed the basis of capitalist development in the hegemonic core states as well as in peripheral regions under their economic and political influence.
In turn, the book analyzes the migration patterns associated with the rise of hegemony from the perspectives of class relations between employers and workers, technological advances at the workplace, economic cycles, and state policies on labor migration. It concludes with a projection that heightened migration will continue to characterize the capitalist world system, especially as many poor and displaced populations in peripheral regions resort to migration for survival. Accordingly, it appeals to scholars in the fields of politics, sociology, history, anthropology, and economics who are interested in globalization and world-system analysis.Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Capitalism and Migration
Book Subtitle: The Rise of Hegemony in the World-System
Authors: Nestor Rodriguez
Series Title: World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22067-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22066-1Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22069-2Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22067-8Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2522-0985
Series E-ISSN: 2522-0993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 209
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Economy/Economic Systems, Migration, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Globalization, Labor Economics