1st Edition
The World-System as Unit of Analysis Past Contributions and Future Advances
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. By Way of Introduction: Selected Discussions on the Scope and Empirics of World-System Analysis (Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz).
Chapter 2. The Analytical-Holistic Divide Within World-Systems Analysis (David Baronov).
Chapter 3. Coercion and Concrete Labor Within Historical Capitalism: Reexamining Intersectionality Theory (Kelvin Santiago-Valles).
Chapter 4. Modern World-System or Capitalist Civilization? (Ramón Grosfoguel and Eric Mielants).
Chapter 5. Great Convergence or the Third Great Divergence? Changes in the Global Distribution of Wealth, 1500–2008 (Sahan Savas Karatasli and Sefika Kumral).
Chapter 6. Illusion in Crisis? World-Economic and Zonal Volatility, 1975–2013 (Daniel S. Pasciuti and Corey R. Payne).
Chapter 7. The Longue Durée and Raw Materialism of Coal: Against the So-Called Death of Coal (Paul S. Ciccantell and Paul K. Gellert)
Chapter 8. Contextualizing Global Inequalities: A Sociological Approach (Anja Weiß).
Chapter 9. (Anti)Systemic Movements: Hegemony, the Passive Revolution, and (Counter)Revolutions (Brendan McQuade).
Chapter 10. Brokering Markets for Labor and Nature: Social Movements and the Transition to a Just Economy (Devparna Roy).
Chapter 11. Exit Strategies: Marginalization, Social Movements, and Exit from the Capitalist World-System (Robert K. Schaeffer).
Bibliography.
Biography
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park (USA). His book Unveiling Inequality (NY, 2009), co-written with Timothy P. Moran, won the 2010 Best Book Award of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association. His current research focuses on global patterns of income inequality, social stratification, and mobility.
