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Monographs
Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
This is the first study of 19th-century Appalachian women. Wilma A. Dunaway moves beyond the black-white dichotomy and the preoccupation with affluent females that handicap antebellum women’s histories. By comparing white, American Indian, free black, and enslaved females, she argues that the nature of a woman’s work was determined by her race, ethnicity, and/or class positions. Concomitantly, the degree to which laws shielded her family from disruption depended upon her race, her class, and the degree to which she adhered to patriarchal conventions about work and cross-racial liaisons.
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The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Wilma Dunaway contends that studies of the U.S. slave family are flawed by the neglect of small plantations and export zones and the exaggeration of slave agency. Using data on population trends and slave narratives, Dunaway identifies several profit-maximizing strategies that owners implemented to disrupt and endanger African-American families. These effective strategies include forced labor migrations, structural interference in marriages and childcare, sexual exploitation of women, shortfalls in provision of basic survival needs, and ecological risks. This book is unique in its examination of new threats to family persistence that emerged during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Slavery in the American Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground by focusing on slave experiences on small plantations in the Upper South. She argues that the region was not buffered from the political, economic, and social impacts of enslavement simply because it was characterized by low black population density and small slaveholdings. Dunaway pinpoints several indicators that distinguished Mountain South enslavement from the Lower South, by drawing on a massive statistical data base derived from antebellum census manuscripts and county tax records of 215 counties in nine states, slaveholder manuscripts, and regional slave narratives.
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The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860 (University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 : The Transition to Capitalism on American Frontiers: Toward a Paradigm Shift
Chapter 2: Slaves, Skins, and Wampum: Destruction of Southern Appalachia's Precapitalist Mode of Production, 1540-1763
Chapter 3: Settlers, Speculators, and Squatters: Competition for Appalachian Land Resources, 1790-1860
Chapter 4: The Poor Man Had No Chance: Formation of a Landless Agrarian Semiproletariat
Chapter 5: Makin' Do or Chasing Profits? The Agrarian Capitalism of Southern Appalachia
Chapter 6: Diggers of the Country: Industrial Production for Export
Chapter 7: The Spatial Organization of External Trade
Chapter 8: The Pervasive Reach of Global Commodity Chains
Chapter 9: Appalachian Communities and Noneconomic Articulation with the Capitalist World System
Chapter 10: Economic Crisis and Deepening Peripheralization
Appendix: Essay on Quantitative Methods
Book Reviews of The First American Frontier
Edited Books
Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing Women's Work and Households in Global Production (Stanford University Press, 2013)
Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains. It challenges long-held assumptions of global economic systems by identifying the crucial role social reproduction plays in production and by declaring the household as an important site of production. In affirming the importance of women's work in global production, this cutting-edge volume fills an important gender gap in the field of global commodity and value chain analysis.
With thirteen chapters by an international group of scholars from sociology, anthropology, economics, women's studies, and geography, this volume begins with an eye-opening feminist critique of existing commodity chain literature. Throughout its remaining five parts, Gendered Commodity Chains addresses ways women's work can be integrated into commodity chain research, the forms women's labor takes, threats to social reproduction, the impact of indigenous and peasant households on commodity chains, the rapidly expanding arenas of global carework and sex trafficking, and finally, opportunities for worker resistance. This broadly interdisciplinary volume provides conceptual and methodological guides for academics, graduate students, researchers, and activists interested in the gendered nature of commodity chains.
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Reviewer Comments about Gendered Commodity Chains
Immanuel Wallerstein: "Work on gender, while very difficult because of the resistance, is also very urgent. We have, as the saying goes, not a minute to lose, which is why this book constitutes an important contribution not merely to the social sciences but to the larger world political scene.”
Professor Ruth Pearson, University of Leeds: "This volume enters uncharted territory. As well as a range of sectors and geographical case studies, it provides a far-reaching theoretical reappraisal of the significance of women's work—both paid and unpaid, hidden and visible—to the accumulation of capital and the social reproduction systems that underlie the accumulation of capital. Unmissable."
Professor Lourdes Benería, Cornell University: “From theoretical and methodological analysis to empirical work, this volume fills a vacuum in commodity chain studies to show how ‘gender is everywhere.’ Gendered Commodity Chains will be of great use for teaching and research, with many policy implications and suggestions for future research."
Professor David A. Smith, University of California, Irvine: “This is a genuinely exciting collection that fills a critical need. Gendered Commodity Chains contains interesting empirical case studies, as well as probing conceptual pieces that synopsize larger bodies of recent research—and then push the envelope much further! It will be an invaluable addition to course readings in fields including development studies, comparative sociology, international studies, political economy, and feminist studies, and a must for academic libraries.”
Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System (Praeger Press, 2003)
This collection offers cutting-edge theoretical directions to explain the structural crises of the 21st century world system. Contributors argue that the capitalist world system has reached a critical bifurcation point, a short period which will be characterized by a sudden shift in the long-term structural forces that have created and sustained the world as we know it. Writers challenge conventional thinking about the most significant structural crises that face the 21st century world system, including terrorism, debt, the growth of megacities as global actors, the emergence of a powerful transnational capitalist class, and the world ecological crisis.
Table of Contents
Foreword Immanuel Wallerstein
Part I: Problems, Crises, and Change in the World-System
1. Has Terrorism Changed the World-System Forever? Wilma A. Dunaway
2. Trade Dependence, Pollution and Infant Mortality in Less Developed Countries Thomas J. Burns, Jeffrey D. Kentor, and Andrew Jorgenson
3. Is the 21st Century World-Economy a Passport to Development or to Sexual Exploitation? Chyong-fang Ko and Han-pi Chang
4. Knowledge Production as a Factor in World Polarization Maria Lucia Maciel
5. The Debt Crisis and Debt-for-Nature Investment at the Periphery: The Costa Rican Case Ana Isla
6. The Weakness of the Semiperipheral Nation-State: The Venezuelan Case Trudie Coker
7. Integration of Central and Eastern Europe into the 21st Century World-Economy Emanuela Todeva and Haico Ebbers
8. Racially-Depreciated Labor in the 21st Century World-System: Puerto Ricans and Globalization Kelvin Santiago-Valles
9. The “Third” Arena: Trends and Logistics in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System Richard E. Lee
10. The Informal Economy as a Transnational Category Hatice Deniz Yükseker
11. Hyper-Urbanization of China’s Pearl River Delta Robert G. Dyck and Wei Huang
12. “Going Global”: Wannabe Cities in the Middle East Bruce Stanley
Part II: Antisystemic Resistance in the 21st Century World-System
13. Indigenous Resistance to Globalization: What Does the Future Hold? Thomas D. Hall and James Fenelon
14. Resistant Indigenous Identities in the 21st Century World-System: Selected African Case Kinuthia Macharia
15. The Dynamics of Everyday Incorporation and Antisystemic Resistance: Lakota Culture in the 21st Century Kathleen Pickering
16. Cyberactivism and Alternative Globalization Movements Lauren Langman, Douglas Morris, and Jackie Zalewski
17. Transnational Advocacy Networking: Labor Rights Movements and Nicaragua's Maquilas, 2000-2001 Tom Ricker and Dale Wimberley
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New Theoretical Directions for the 21st Century World-System (Praeger Press, 2003)
This collection offers cutting-edge theoretical directions to explain the structural crises of the 21st century world system. Contributors argue that the capitalist world system has reached a critical bifurcation point, a short period which will be characterized by a sudden shift in the long-term structural forces that have created and sustained the world as we know it. Writers challenge conventional thinking about the most significant structural crises that face the 21st century world system, including terrorism, debt, the growth of megacities as global actors, the emergence of a powerful transnational capitalist class, and the world ecological crisis.
Table of Contents
Foreword Immanuel Wallerstein
Part I: Change and Resistance in an Age of Transition
1. Has Terrorism Changed the World-System Forever? Wilma A. Dunaway
2. Intellectuals in an Age of Transition Immanuel Wallerstein
3. The Feminist Face of World-Systemic Change Torry D. Dickinson
Part II: Structural Crises of the Modern World-System
4. Systemic Crises and Neoliberalism: Conceptualizing “Globalization” for the Early 21st Century Trichur K. Ganesh
5. The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Rise of a Transnational State William I. Robinson
6. Debt and Resurrection: Prognosis for the Periphery in the 21st Century Taimoon Stewart
Part III: Cities in the 21st Century World-System
7. Rediscovering Cities and Urbanization in the 21st Century World-System David A. Smith
8. Recasting World-Systems Analysis for the 21st Century: City Networks for Nation-States Peter Taylor
Part IV: Hegemonic Rivalry in the 21st Century World-System
9. The Future of Great Power Rivalries Joachim K. Rennstich
10. U.S. Hegemony and East Asia: An Exploration of China’s Challenge in the 21st Century Satoshi Ikeda
Part V: The 21st Century World-Ecosystem
11. Women’s Labor and Nature: The 21st Century World-System from a Radical Ecofeminist Perspective Wilma A. Dunaway
12. The 21st Century World-Ecosystem: Dissipation, Chaos, or Transition? Paul Prew
Part VI: The Future of World-System Analysis
13. “Globalization” and Competing Paradigms in World-System Analysis Victor Roudometof
14. World-System Analysis as Critical Theory for the 21st Century Heinz Sonntag
15. The System of Future Worlds: Can Analysis Outlive the Capitalist World-System? Charles Lemert
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