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Fernand Braudel Center

for the Study of Economies,Historical Systems, and Civilizations

State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13901

No. 8 Activities,1983-84 July 15, 1984

I. ResearchWorking Groups

These are groups of faculty and graduate students engaged in col~ectiveresearch.

a) Cvclical Rhvthms and Secular Trends of the Capitalist World-Econom

This group is continuing its work on tracing commodity chains in wheatflour and shipbuilding in the world-economy in the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies. It has been awarded a grant of $55,236 from the NationalScienceFoundation to pursue this work.

b) . Households, Labor-Force Formation, and the World-Economy

Two publications have come from earlier work of this group. One is thespecial issue of Review, VII, 2, Fall 1983 on "The Household and the

Large-Scale Agricultural Unit." The second is a volume in our Explorationsin the World-Economy series entitled Households and the World-Economy edited

by Joan Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Hans-DieterEvers. This volumewillbe publishedin the fall of 1984. We are exploringeditionsin German andSpanish.

The new research of this group, described in Newsletter No.7, on a

comparative analysis of the transformation of household structures in the

U.S., Mexico, and southern Africa over the period 1873-1967, has received a

grant of $80,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The group organized a special session at the Annual Meetings of the

American Sociological Association in Detroit in September, 1983 on "HouseholdAlchemies: Transformations in Social Reproduction in the World-Economy."

Joan Smith will present a paper at the 45th International Congress of

Americanists in Bogota, Colombia in July, 1985 in a panel entitled "TheMeasurement of Social and Environmental Change and Associated Problems at a

World, Regional, and Household Level." William G. Martin and Mark Beittel

will present a paper entitled "No Political Economy Without Households and

Vice-Versa: Conceptualizing 'Households' in Southern Africa" at a conference

sponsored by the SSRC Africa Committee on "Conceptualizing the Household:

Issues of Theory, Method, and Application," which will be held in Cambridge,Mass. in November, 1984.

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c) World Labor

The group is in the midst of a research project on the shiftingimportance of workplace and marketplace bargaining power in various parts ofthe world-system over the period 1870 to the present. The work should resultin a manuscript by the end of the coming year.

The group continues to participate in the binational U.S.-U.S.S.R.projects on world labor and social change under the aegis of the AmericanCouncil of Learned Societies and the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Fourcolloquia have now been held. The results of the first were published thisyear as Labor in the World Social Structure, edited by Immanuel Wallerstein.The results of the third colloquium will appear this coming year under thetitle Technological Change and Workers' Movements, edited by Melvyn Dubofsky.

d) Semiperipheral States of the World-Economy

The group will bring to a close in this coming year its current researchon the determinants of state policy in the twentieth century of a series ofsemi peripheral states: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hungary, India, Israel,Italy, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Taiwan, and Turkey. A preliminary andpartial version of results was presented at the VIIIth Annual PoliticalEconomy of the World-System conference in April, 1984 at Brown University. Amanuscript will be completed this year.

The resultscurrently beingSemi periphery:

of the research of the predecessor Southern European group isedited by Giovanni Arrighi under the title Southern EuropeanLogic and Limits of a Transition.

Two papers were presented at the UNITAR Conference of Europeanists inNaples in October, 1983. They are Giovanni Arrighi, Caglar Keyder, andImmanuel Wallerstein, "Southern Europe in the World-Economy in the TwentiethCentury: Political and Social Transformations," and Giovanni Arrighi andImmanuel Wallerstein, "What Difference Do Socialist Governments in SouthernEurope Make? Some Notes for a Discussion." Both papers will be published inthe proceedings of the Conference. The second paper has also appeared inPeuples mediterraneens, No. 25, oct.-dec. 1985.

e) Concepticon of the Historical Social Sciences

This group expects to complete this coming fall its pilot project onterms related to agrarian social structure in the modern world in variousEuropean languages.

f) Southern Africa and the World-Economy

This group is in the midst of its research, described in the precedingNewsletter, on the creation of southern Africa as a "region" within theworld-economy. It has received a grant of $38,415 from the Ford Foundationin conjunction with this research project. William G. Martin presented apaper at the African Studies Association meeting in November, 1983 in Bostonon "The Myth of the South African State."

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g) The Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy

This newly-formed group has begun work on the transformations in the

Eastern Mediterranean, 1840-1920, in zones that were part of or had only

recently broken away from the Ottoman Empire. It has choosen initially five

port cities (Patras, Salonica, Izmir, Beirut, and Alexandria). For each it

will study the economic changes brought about by integration into the

world-economy, the structure of the mercantile classes, and the political

impact on the emerging state structures of these economic changes.

This group will also co-sponsor in November 1984 with the SouthwestASia/North Africa Program of SUNY-Binghamton a conference on "The Ottoman

Empire and World Capitalism."

II. Collegia

Collegia, unlike research working groups, do not have or do not yet havecollective research projects. They assemble faculty and graduate students

from many departments around common interests. Several of them are planning

to develop a research focus. We presently have five such collegia, whichwere meeting last year or are first starting this fall. They are:

a) Women, Culture, and Societyb) Latin America

c) South Asia

d) Methods of World-Systems Analysis

e) The Interstate System

III. Conferences and Colloquia

a) Conference of Europeanists, Oct. 13-15, 1983, Washington, D.C.

The Center sponsored a panel on "The Political Economy of Southern

Europe." The program was:

Chair: Immanuel Wallerstein (Fernand Braudel Center)

Peter Lange (Duke University), "The Concept of Semi periphery and its

Application to Southern Europe"

Sidney Tarrow (Cornell University), "Social Movements and PoliticalPower"

Giovanni Arrighi (Fernand Braudel Center), "The Relationship Between

World-Hegemony and Struggles for National Hegemony"

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b) IVth U.S.-U.S.S.R. Colloquium on World Labor and Social Change,

Moscow, Nov. 14-16, 1983.

These colloquia are co-sponsored by the Center and the Institute forInternational Labour Studies, Moscow under the accord between the A.C.L.S.

and the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. The theme of the fourth colloquium was

"1880's-1980's: L~bor in the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R." The titles of the papersby the U.S. participants were:

David Brody (University of California, Davis), "Labor in the American

Political System: The Limits of Participation HistoricallyConsidered"

Michael Burawoy (University of California, Berkeley), "Between the LaborProcess and the State: The Changing Face of Factory Regimes UnderAdvanced Capitalism"

Heather Hogan (Oberlin College), "Some Problems of Trade Unionism in

Pre-Revolutionary Russia: The Case of the St. Petersburg MetalWorkers' Union"

Melvyn Dubofsky (Fernand Braudel Center), "Technological Change andAmerican Worker Movements, 1870's-1970's"

Beverly J. Silver (Fernand Braudel Center), "The Incorporation of

Non-Wage Strata into the U.S. Labor Force: Some Implications for theLabor Movement"

Carmen J. Sirianni (Northeastern University), "Rethinking the

Significance of Workers' Control in the Russian Revolution"

Joan Smith (Fernand Braudel Center), "Women and the Recomposition of

Labor Forces: Some Preliminary Notes"

Ronald Suny (University of Michigan), "Marxism and the Georgian Working

Class: The Menshevik Hegemony"

The titles of the papers of the U.S.S.R. participants were:

G. Arbatov, "Anniversary Reflections on the 50th Anniversay of

Soviet-U.S. Diplomatic Relations"

A. 1. Belchik, "Socio-Economic Processes of the 70's and 80's in theHistory of Capitalism"

A. Galkin, "The Working Class as a Dynamic Developing Class"

V. Gelbras, "Industrial Workers in China: The First 100 Years"

E. B. Gruzdeva & D. S. Chertikhina, "Soviet Women in Production andDaily Life"

M. Lapitsky, "Trade-Union and Antiwar Movements in the U.S.A."

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M. Lapitsky & I. Savelyeva, "The American Labor Movement in RecentSoviet Literature"

S. Menshikov, "Long-Term Aspects of the Economic Cycle and SocialChange"

1. K. Pantin & E. G. Plimak, "The Russian Proletariat at the Beginningof the 20th Century"

c) Vlth International Colloquium on the World-Economy, Paris, June 4-5,1984.

These Colloquia are co-sponsored annually by the Center, the Maison desSciences de l'Homme (Paris), and the Starnberger Institut zur Erforschung

Globaler Strukturen, Entwicklungen, und Krisen (F.R. Germany). They bringtogether about 30 scholars from around the world. The theme of this

Colloquium was "National Policies and Global Movements of Restructuring."The sessions were as follows:

Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins, & Immanuel Wallerstein (Fernand

Braudel Center), "Dilemmas of the Anti-Systemic Movements"

Michel Beaud (Paris-VIII & GEMDEV), "La gauche fran~aise et lacontrainte ext€rieure"

Jos€-Agustin Silva Michelena (CENDES), "Dilemmas of Third WorldGovernments"

Wladimir Andreff (Universite de Grenoble), "QueUes strat€giesd'adaptation dans les €conomies nationales dans les pays de l'Est?"

Folker Frobel, Jurgen Heinrichs, & Otto Kreye (Starnberger Institut),

"On Some Postulates of an Anti-systemic Policy"

The Vllth I.C.W.E. will be held in Dakar, Senegal on May 20-22, 1985.

The theme will be "Theory and Practice of National Development in the Third

World since 1945." The local co-sponsor will be the Forum du Tiers-Monde.

Samir Amin is the local organizer.

The Vlllth I.C.W.E. is planned for Modena, Italy in the spring of 1986.

The tentative theme is "Western Europe and the World-Economy: Relations

with the Third World and Eastern Europe." The local organizer is RiccardoParboni of the Istituto Economico at the University.

d) Other colloquia being planned.

The Center is planning to arrange bilateral colloquia in the coming

years with Venezuela, France, and Mozambique on various topics relating to

the historical development of the modern world. The Center will organize

U.S. participation. Our counterpart in Venezuela will be CENDES (Centro deEstudios del Desaro110) of the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas.

In France it will be GEMDEV (GIS Economie mondiale, Tiers-Monde,

D€ve10ppement) in association with the Groupe Economie-Monde of the M.S.H.

In Mozambique, it will be the Centro de Estudos Africanos of the

Universidade Eduardo Mond1ane in Maputo.

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IV. Publications (appearing this year or in press)

a) Studies in Modern Capitalism series, Cambridge Univ. Press.

Immanuel Wallerstein, The Politics of the World-Economy: The States,the Movements, and the Civilizations

Michel Morineau, Ces incroyables gazettes et fabu1eux metaux: 1es

retours des tresors americains, d'apres 1es gazettes hol1andais

(16e-l8e siec1es) (in press)

b) Explorations in the World-Economy series, Sage Publications.

Two titles are in press. Their tables of contents follow:

Joan Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein, & Hans-Dieter Evers, eds., Households and

the World-Economy

I. Households, Subsistence, and the Capitalist World-Economy:Theoretical Perspectives

Immanuel Wallerstein, "Household Structures and Labor-Force Formation in

the Capitalist World-Economy"

Hans-Dieter Evers, Wolfgang Clauss, & Diana Wong, "Subsistence

Reproduction: A Framework for Analysis"

Kathie Friedman, "Households as Income-Pooling Units"

Diana Wong, "The Limits of Using the Household as a Unit of Analysis"

Joan Smith, "Noq-Wage Labor and Subsistence"

Georg Stauth, "Households, Modes of Living, and Production Systems"

Tilman Schiel, "Development and Underdevelopment of Household-Based

Production in Europe"

Claudia von Wer1hof, "The Proletarian is Dead, Long Live the Housewife?"

II. Households, The State, and Accumulation Processes

William G. Martin, "Beyond the Peasant to Proletarian Debate: AfricanHousehold Formation in South Africa"

Eva Machado Barbosa, "Household Economy and Financial Capital: The

Case of Passbook Savings in Brazil"

Johannes Augel, "Contribution of Public Goods to Household Reproduction:

Case Study from Brazil"

Lanny Thompson, "State, Collective, and Household: The Process of

Accumulation in China, 1949-65"

Torry Dickinson, "Gender Division within the U.S. Working Class:

Households in the Philadelphia Area, 1870-1945"

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III. Internal Structure of Households

Anna Davin, "Working or Helping? London Working-Class Children in theDomestic Economy"

Maria del Carmen Baerga, "Wages, Consumption, and Survival: Working-Class Households in Puerto Rico in the 1930's"

Veronika Bennho1dt-Thomsen, "Towards a Theory of the Sexual Division ofLabor"

Georg E1wert, "Conflicts Inside and Outside the Household: A WestAfrican Case Study"

Melvyn Dubofsky, ed., Technological Change and Workers' Movements

M. Dubofsky, General Introduction

Charles Bergquist, "Export Production Structures and the Latin-American

Labor Movement: Toward a Typology"

A. Ga1kin, "The New Technology and the Problem of Employment:

Socio-Politica1 Aspects"

Heather Hogan, "The Origins of Scientific Management in Russia"

Sanford Jacoby, "Union-Management Cooperation in the U.S., 1940-46"

S.V. Mikhai1ov, "Soviet Views of Social Consequences of TechnologicalShifts in the U.S.A."

Molly Nolan, "Working-Class Formation and Working-Class Politics in

Imperial Germany"

B.N. Ponomarev, "Scientific-Technological Revolution and Contradictions

of Capitalism"

N.V. Sivachev & I.M. Save1yeva, "Recent Soviet Studies on American LaborHistory"

Joan Smith, "The Redivision of Labor in the U.S. and the Poverty of

Working Women"

Robert J. Thomas, "Quality or Quantity? Worker Participation in the

U.S. and Japanese Automobile Industries"

Andrew G. Walder, "Socialist Development and the Chinese Working Class"

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c) Review. The table of contents of Volume VII are as follows:

VII, 1, Summer 1983

Mohamed S. Sfia The World Capitalist System andthe Transition to Socialism

Nicoletta Stame Poland: The Logic of Two Anti-systemic Movements

Cag1ar Keyder Small Peasant Ownership in Turkey:Historical Formation and Present

Structure

Marlene Dixon,

Elizabeth Martinez,

& Ed McCaughan

Chicanas and Mexicanas Within a

Transnational Working Class:

Theoretical Perspectives

Alejandro Portes The Informal Sector: Definition,Controversy, and Relation toNational Development

VII, 2, Fall 1983

THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE LARGE-SCALE AGRICULTURAL UNIT

Peter Ulshofer Household and Enterprise: Towardsa New Model of the Plantation

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Antebellum Southern Households:

A New Perspective on a FamiliarQuestion

Albert Meyers Household, Labor Relations, and

Reproductive Strategies AmongSmall Cane Farmers in Jamaica

Georg Stauth Capitalist Farming and Small PeasantHouseholds in Egypt

Claudia von Werlhof Production Relations Without Wage

Labor and Labor Division by Sex

VII, 3, Winter 1984

Charles Tilly The Old New Social History and

the New Old Social History

R.W. Connell Class Formation on a World Scale

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LONG WAVES

Nils Jacobsen Cycles and Booms in Latin American

Export Agriculture: The Exampleof Southern Peru's Livestock

Economy 1855-1920

Ernesto Screpanti Long Economic Cycles and Recurring

Proletarian Insurgencies

VII, 4, Spring 1984

LONG WAVES IN HISTORY

Introduction

Immanuel Wallerstein Long Waves as Capitalist Process

Michel Morineau Juglar, Kitcqin, Kondratieff et

compagnie

Rainer Metz Long Waves in Coinage and GrainPrice-Series from the Fifteenth

to the Eighteenth Century: SomeTheoretical and Methodological

Aspects

Dominique Margairaz Les specificites regionales des

mouvements conjoncturels des prixcerealiers en France, 1756-1870

Rod Coombs Long Waves and Labor-Process Change

Andrew Tylecote Towards an Explanation of the Long

Wave, 1780-2000

d) Other. The Center continues to edit material for Sviluppo, a

research journal in Italian.

The first number of the Newsletter on Long Waves has appeared. It is

jointly edited by the Center and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. It is

available upon request.

V. Visiting Research Associates

We have had with us, for the whole year, 1983-84, Luca Meldolesi of the

Univ. of Calabria (Italy) and Marisela Padron-Quero of CENDES, Univ.Nacional de Venezuela as Visiting Research Associates. Brian Van Arkadie

(Inst. of Social Studies, The Hague) spent part of the spring in residenceas a Senior Research Associate. Prabhati Mukherjee (Calcutta) returned in

the spring as a Visiting Research Associate. Dag Tangen (Oslo) has joined

us in July, 1984 as a Visiting Research Associate for a year.

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VI. Campus Events

a) Public Lectures

Oct. 27, 1983: Cheryl Payer, author, "The Current International Financial

Crisis," co-sponsored with GSO, ISA, Political Science, SGSO, Sociology.

Nov. 4, 1983: Xue Mou-hong, editor, International Studies, "The Future ofSino-Soviet Relations," co-sponsored by CIW, History, Political Science,Sociology.

Nov. 16, 1983: Cigdem Kagitcibasi, Psychology, Bogazici Univ., Istanbul,"Women and Development in Turkey," co-sponsored by CSA, Women's Studies.

Jan. 27, 1984: Hsiung Hsing-mei, Economics, Nankai Univ., "China's Economyin the 1980's."

Feb. 27, 28, 29, 1984: Luca Meldolesi, Economics, Univ. of Calabria, "Andthe (Capitalist) Ship Sails On......

"The Spirits of Capitalism and Braudel's 'Longue Duree'""The Social Wave: Braudel & Lenin"

"A Theory of Intersections and the Contemporary World"

Mar. 20, 1984: Georg Elwert, Sociology, Univ. Bielefeld, "Sixteenth Century

Germany and Contemporary West Africa: Anti-Venality Movements,"

co-sponsored by Afro-American & African Studies, History, and ReligiousStudies.

Mar. 28, 30, & April 2, 1984: Brian Van Arkadie, Economic Development,

Inst. of Social Studies, The Hague, "Economic Crisis in the Periphery."

"The Diversity of Post-1945 Peripheral Growth"

"Exogenous and E,ndogenous Factors in the Tanzania Economic Crisis:A Case Study"

"Comparisons Between Asian and African Performance and Possible

Trajectories"

April 5, 1984: Edward Friedman, Political Science, Univ. of Wisconsin-

Madison, "Leninist Paths Within a Socialist Conundrum," co-sponsored by

CIW, ISA, Political Science, SGSO, and Sociology.

April 24, 1984: Silviu Brucan, Univ. of Bucharest, "Market Mechanisms inSocialist Countries: The Great De"bate."

May 3, 1984: Mari Evans, poet, "To Be a Black Woman," co-sponsored by BSA,CSA, OCC, and Women's Center.

May 4, 1984: Gail Omvedt, authorOppression: Feminism & Marxismto India," co-sponsored by CIW,Sociology, Women's Studies.

and activist, "Responses to Triplein the Third World with Special Reference

ISA, NY Council' on the Humanities, SGSO,

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b) Monthly Seminars

Oct. 3, 1983: Giu1iana Gemelli, History, Univ. Bologna, "The VIe Section ofthe Ecole Pratique and the Unification of the Economic and SocialSciences in France."

Nov. 2, 1983: Luca Me1do1esi, Economics, Calabria, "Braude1 and Lenin."

Nov. 30, 1983: Saskia Sassen-Koob, Sociology, CUNY, "Capital Mobility andLabor Migration: The Expression in Core Cities."

Feb. 1, 1984: Giovanni Arrighi, Cag1ar Keyder, & Immanuel Wallerstein,"Southern Europe in the World-Economy."

Mar. 14, 1984:"Venezuela:1935-41."

Marise1a Padron-Quero, CENDES, Caracas, Venezuela,

Some Hypotheses Concerning Political Development Between

Apr. 4, 1984: Marian Kostecki, Inst. of Philosophy & Sociology, PolishAcademy of Sciences, "An Institutional Revolt: Social Movement in Poland1980-83."

The papers of the Monthly Seminar are available for $4.00.

VII. Announcements

The IXth Annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference will beheld at Tulane University, New Orleans, La. from March 28-30, 1985. Thetheme will be "Crises in the Caribbean Basin: Past and Present." The

organizer is Prof. Richard Tardanico, of the Department of Sociology. Those

wishing to participate should write him.