The Great Transformation The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time , Boston: Beacon
Press, 1957.
2
For an elaboration of this argument see James H Mittelman, `Global restructuring of production and
migration’ , in Yoshikazu Sakamoto (ed.),
Global Transformation: Challenges to the State System , pp
276±298, Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1994; and Mittelman, `The globalization of social
con¯ ict’ , in Volker Bornschier & Peter Lengyel (eds),
World Society Studies , Vol 3:
Con¯ icts and New Departures in World Society , pp 317±337, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1994.
3
For provocative ideas on the nexus between production and identity, I am indebted to the collective
discussion at the Symposium on `Work, class and culture’ hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand’ s
History Workshop and the Sociology of Work Unit, Johannesburg, 28±30 June 1993. Particularly valuable
from the standpoint of the text that follows is the examination of the dilemmas of a `shift from the political
culture of resistance to one of reconstruction, from social movement unionism to strategic unionism’ in a
paper on `South Africa’ s industrialisation: the challenge facing labor’ by A Joffe, J Maller & E C Webster.
4
Adam Smith,
The Theory of Moral Sentiments , eds D D Raphael & A L Mac® e, London: Oxford University
Press, 1976.
5
David Ricardo,
Principles of Political Economy , ed E C K Gonner, London: G. Bell and Sons, 1932, p 114.
6
Max Weber,
The Theory of Social and Economic Organization , ed Talcott Parsons, New York: Free Press,
1947, p 225.
7
Robin Cohen,
The New Helots: Migrants in the New International Division of Labour , Brook® eld: Gower,
1987, pp 231±232.
8
FroÈbel, Folker, Heinrichs, Jurgen & Otto Kreye (eds),
The New International Division of Labour: Structural Unemployment in Industrialised Countries and Industrialisation in Developing Countries , trans Pete
Burgess, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980; and Alain Lipietz,
Mirages and Miracles: The Crisis of Global Fordism , trans David Macey, London: Verso, 1985. Also, James A. Caporaso (ed.),
International Political Economy Yearbook , Vol 2:
A Changing International Division of Labor , Boulder,
CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 1987.
9
See David Gordon, `The global economy: new edi® ces or crumbling foundations?’
New Left Review , 168,
pp 24±64 for quali® cations to the
NIDL
argument.
10
MarõÂa Patricia FernaÂndez Kelly, `International development and industrial restructuring: the case of garment
and electronics industries in Southern California’ , in Arthur MacEwan & William Tabb (eds),
Instability and Change in the World Economy , pp. 151±151, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1989.
11
Singapore Economic Development Board, `Singapore worker retains ranking as world’ s best’ ,
Singapore Investment News , May 1993, p 8.
12
Gary Geref® , `Paths of industrialisation: an overview’ , in Gary Geref®
& Donald L Wyman (eds),
Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia , p 3, Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1990.
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JAMES H MITTELMAN
13
Jeffrey Henderson,
The Globalisation of High Technology Production: Society, Space and Semiconductors in the Restructuring of the Modern World , London: Routledge, 1989.
14
The categories of East Asian
NIE
s and
ASEAN
overlap, for Singapore is generally regarded as a member of
both groups.
15
Alice Amsden,