Creating & Transforming Househ

This book examines the intimate link between the micro-structures of households and the structures of the world-economy at a global level. It seeks to explain differences in wage levels for work of comparable productivity by examining the different structures of households as income-pooling units. The authors argue that the boundaries and sources of income of households are molded by the changing patterns of the world-economy but are also modes of defense against its pressures. Empirical data is drawn from eight local regions in three different zones: the United States Mexico and southern Africa.