Capitalism and Migration

The Rise of Hegemony in the World-System
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-22069-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 209 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 347 g

Reihe: World-Systems Evolution and Global Futures

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodriguez, Nestor

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Migration and Hegemony in the World-System.- Chapter 2. Capital Migration and Florentine Dominance in the European Medieval Wool Industry.- Chapter 3. Migration and Dutch Capitalist Development.- Chapter 4. British Hegemony and Migration.- Chapter 5. Monopoly Capital, US Hegemony, and Migration.- Chapter 6. Migration and World-System Development

Über Autor(innen)

Nestor Rodriguez is a professor of sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. His research focuses on international migration of unauthorized migrants, Latin American migration to the USA, and state policies to control irregular immigration. He has also studied the deaths of unauthorized migrants at the US–Mexico border.