Labor, Class, and the International System by Alejandro Portes

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Labor, Class, and the International System explores the interface between the labor process, class structure, and the global requirements of accumulation as a necessary complement to the analysis of capital and dominant institutions and focus on this interaction to clarify some of the apparent contradictions and bring the general models in line with empirical reality. The book provides analysis of concepts and hypotheses derived from general theory with available empirical knowledge on each show more particular topic. Each chapter addresses problem areas namely, international migration; pre-capitalist m show less

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Alejandro Portes

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Alejandro Portes is Professor of Sociology and founding director of the Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University, and Research Professor, University of Miami. Rubn G. Rumbaut is Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine, and founding chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological show more Association. They are the coauthors of Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation and coeditors of Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America. show less