Hi all,
>From the vantage point of (yes, yawn as you may) NIDL, I have to
question whether it is really the case that the international trade we
recognize over the long term in the modern world system has implied a
globalization of production. Perhaps production is too general a term.
If we were to categorize agriculture with extractive industries (which I
believe is defensible from the point of view of "classical dependency")
we can avoid blurring whatever useful distinctions there may be between the
"globalization" of extraction and the "globalization" of manufacturing
and some "services." I bring this up simply because I think that such
distinctions (recognizing the differences in local sectoral mixes within
the broader context of the world system) make an important difference
for the ways in which the local trajectories of social change unfold.
But that's merely my considered opinion; others may, and do, disagree.
Bill Haller
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Department of Sociology ^ Social and Urban Research
University of Pittsburgh ^ 121 University Place
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