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Describe the modern world system in terms of the core, the semiperphery and the periphery?
Core: dominant economic power
Semiperphery: partly industrialized, lack of dominance
Periphery: exploited for labor, raw materials
What factors lead to spirit possession of factory women in Malaysian free trade zones? Why are young women preferred in factory zones?
- patriarchal oppression/stress/hysteria/protest
- small hands, easy to control
What events led to the modern world system?
- maritime trade
- indonesian & african trade
- columbus
- subsistence farming
- transatlantic slave trade & sugar/cotton
- industrial revolution
- domestic system of manufacture
- imperialism
- neoliberalism
What are class consciousness and stratification?
class: different interests, clash of classes, labor movements
stratification: control of production vs wages/conditions
How do returns on labor differ from returns on capital?
labor=capital=industrialism
How does imperialism compare to colonialism and development?
imperialism: Romans
colonialism: England to U.S.
How does imperialism affect indigenous peoples?
- exploited
- social darwinism
- barbarians
