The Ominous Reading List (not for the faint of heart)

Updated October 6th after meeting with some of the future SECD Prelim Faculty ... Updated again Nov 12 after I signed up for the prelim, officially and for real, for real.

Development theories

World System Theory
Wallerstein, Immanuel (1979) The Capitalist World Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Arrighi. 1994. The Long Twenthieth Century. Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times. London/New York: Verso, 1994.

Arrighi, Giovanni “Globalization in World Systems Perspective,” In R. Appelbaum and W. Robinson, eds., Critical Globalization Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 2005.

DEPENDENCY

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique and Enzo Faletto ([1969], 1979) Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press.,

O Donnell, Guillermo (1978) “Reflections on the Patterns of Change in the Bureacuratic-Authoritarian State” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 13, No. 1

Evans, Peter (1979) Dependent Development. The Alliance of Multinational, State, and Local Capital in Brazil, Princeton: Princeton University Press.


MODERNIZATION

Rostow, W.W. (1960) The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Lipset, Seymour Martin ([1959] 1981) Political Man. The social Bases of Politics. Maryland: John Hopkins University Press. Especially chapter II: Economic Development and Democracy.

Huntington, Samuel. Political Order in Changing Societies (1968)


Secondary Readings

So, Alvin Y. (1990) Social Change and Development. Modernization, Dependency, and World-System Theories, London: Sage (note how, in spite of it's broad and helpful overview of the state of the development literature, this secondary reading has some flaws and critics, particularly it's treatment of World Systems theory, and sparse indepth analysis of this approach).

McMichael, Philip, Development and Social Change, second edition. Sage Pubs., 2000

Cooper Fred and Packard Randall (Eds.). International Development and the Social Sciences. 1997 (Only read Introduction)

Stern, Steve, Feudalism, Capitalism, and the World-System Perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean

Sikkink, Kathryn. Find an article on developmentalism.

Developmental States

Peter Evans, 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation, Princeton 1995.

O’Hearn, The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the US, and Ireland , Manchester University Press, 2001 (Julia summarize)

Woo Cumings, ed. 1999. The Developmental State. Cornell University Press. (Selected articles, including Chalmers Johnson?)

Chibber, Vivekk, Locked in Place and the reviews of his book on his website. (Rodolfo)

Gereffi, Gary and Donald Wyman (eds). Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990

Amsden. “Why isn’t the World Experimenting with the East Asian Model to Develop?” In World Development 1994. (Mytoan summarize)

Wade, Robert. “East Asia’s Economic Success: Conflicting Perspectives, Partial Insights, Shaky Evidence.” World Politics 1992. (Mytoan summarize)

Baer Werner “ISI in Latin America: Experiences and Interpretations” Latin American Research Review. 1972 (7) (Only relevant as background on what ISI is)

Reuschmeyer, Stephens, and Stephens. Capitalist Development and Democracy. 1997.


Commodity Chains / Extractive Economies

Collins, Jane. 2003. Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry. University of Chicago Press.

Bunker. “Modes of Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Progressive, Underdevelopment of an Extreme Periphery: The Brazil Amazon, 1600-1980” (AJS, 1984, 89)
Bunker. Underdeveloping the Amazon. 1985.

Bunker and Ciccantell. The Race for Resources.

Coronil, Fernando. The Magical State: Nature, Money and Modernity in Venezuela. 1997.

Gereffi, Gary and Miguel Korzeniewicz (eds) Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism. Praeger, 1994.Select Book Chapters by Gereffi, Korzeniewicz and Chen or per Gay Seidman’s recommendations

Lipietz Alain. “Towards Global Fordism.” New Left Review 1982, 132

Amsden, Alice. “Third World Industrialization: ‘Global Fordism’ or a New Model?” New Left Review. 1990.

Agriculture

Paige, Jeffery M, Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America . Harvard University Press, 1997

Paige, Jeffrey. 1978. Agrarian Revolutions.

Robinson, William.

Friedmann, Harriett.

Scott, James C. 1987. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance


Labor and Globalization

Lee, Ching Kwan (2007) Against the Law. Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt, Berkeley: University of California Press (a former grad student of Burawoy)

Seidman, Gay. 1994. Manufacturing Militance: Workers' Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985. UC Press. (well known amongst Wisconsin Soc grads: Gay was a grad of Burawoy)

Silver, Beverly. Forces of Labor, 2003. Uses NYT articles on labor unrest 1870-1996 to show how the race to the bottom and labor internationalism debates about globalization are trumped by other forms of segmentation created by state policies, workers (for themselves), and multinationals.

Michael Burawoy, “The Hidden Abode of Underdevelopment: Labor Process and State in Zambia” Politics & Society, Vol. 11, No. 2, 123-166 (1982)

Bickham Mendez, Jennifer. 2005. From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras.

McKay, Steven (2006), Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Salzinger Leslie, Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico’s Global Factories. University of California Press, 2003

Hagen Koo. Korean Workers. The Culture and Politics of Class Formation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.


Migration

Parrenas, Rhacel. Servants and Globalization: Women, migration and domestic work. Stanford Press, 2001.

Parrenas. “Long Distance Mothering.”

Saxenian, AnnaLee, 2006. The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy

Richard Appelbaum and Edna Bonacich, Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry

Wells, Miriam (1996) Strawberry Fields. Politics, Class, and Work in California Agriculture.

Smith, Michael Peter, (2007) Citizenship Across Borders: The Politican Transnational of El Migrante. (Intro)

Massey. Worlds in Motion.

Portes. Cities on the Edge.

Portes, Migration at the Dawn of the 21st Century.


Readings in Migration/Remittances?

Dalip, Ratha (economist)

Neoliberal Restructuring

Joseph Stiglitz. Globalization and its Discontents. Critic of the Washington Consensus/neo-liberal policies and their impact on developing countries.

Jeffrey Sachs The End of Poverty OR Common Wealth

Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell (2002) Neoliberalizing Space. The Urbanization of Neoliberalism: Theoretical Debates, Antipode.

James Ferguson. The Antipolitics Machine. Development, Depolitizacion and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1990 (Only the introduction)

Ferguson. Article on the privatization of the state in In the Shadow of the State.

Babb, Sarah. 2001. Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism. Princeton, 2001

Sader. Article on turn to the left.

Evans and Boaventura. Articles in Politics and Society. Special issue on Globalization.

Goldman, Michael.

Transnational movements

Sanjeev Khagram. Dams and Development. Transnational Struggles for Water and Power.

Keck and Sikkink, Activists beyond borders, Cornell University Press, 1998

Seidman. 2007. Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Transnational Activism.

Godoy. On human rights in Guatemala.

Baoicci.

Social Movements

Yashar, Deborah. On indigenous movements.

Financialization

Wade, Robert. Article in New Left Review.

Helleiner. “Currency Blocs and the Future of Embedded Liberalism.”

Gender

Brown Thomspon, Karen, in Sikkink book.

Jaquette and Summerfield. Pdf on share drive.

Other

Caldeira, Teresa. 2001. City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in Sao Paulo

Sassen. 2006. Cities in World Economy