The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World System, 1945-2025Palgrave Macmillan, 1996 - 278 pages Everyone agrees the world is changing in the 1990s with the end of the Cold War and with a supposedly new globalization. But are these the essential changes? In order to see where the world is headed in the next quarter-century, it is crucial to analyse correctly where it has been since 1945. It is the contention of this book that the post-1945 world already saw its major moment of change in the years 1967-73, a moment in which there was a conjuncture of three major turning-points, each leading to a downturn. These comprise, in the short-term, the end of the world economic expansion in the current 50-year Kondratieff cycle; in the medium-term, the beginning of a decline in the dominant role of the USA; and in the long-term, intimations of a possible systemic disintegration of the 500-year-old capitalist world-economy. Separating out these effects, the book analyses what constitutes the long-term structural crisis of the world-system into which we have entered, and the very difficult period of transition which has begun. |
Contents
Thomas Reifer and Jamie Sudler 135 | 13 |
World Production | 38 |
The World Labour Force | 87 |
The Global Reach of Taylorism | 96 |
Changing Modes of Expansion of Capital and Labour | 103 |
The Expanding Dominion of Semiproletarian Households | 109 |
World Human Welfare | 117 |
The Social Cohesion of the States | 148 |
Structures of Knowledge | 178 |
The Global Picture 194590 | 209 |
The Global Possibilities 19902025 | 226 |
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The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World-system 1945-2025 Terence K. Hopkins,Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein No preview available - 1996 |