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Introduces a section in The Migration Reader: Exploring Politics and Policies on a historical analysis of migration patterns. General themes emerge such as the impact of international migration on capitalism, nation building, ethnic patterns, & race relations.

We present and discuss a replication and reassessment of the welfare-state decommodification index, and introduce a new, publicly available data set of key welfare-state programme characteristics. Using the same programme features used to create the 'decommodification index' in The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, one of the most widely cited sources in the field, we are able to replicate the results quite closely. However, our investigation suggests a number of likely errors in the original formulation. Once these are accounted for, we find very limited empirical support for the 'three worlds' typology in the decommodification data. Though some clear differences remain, there is also much less overall variation among countries. Furthermore, there is little evidence of 'clustering' among programme scores, a finding which is at odds with the idea of distinctive national regimes. Our results point to the need for a detailed re-investigation of welfare-state benefits in advanced industrial democracies. Our data set helps to provide a basis for such an assessment.

At the confluence of two intellectual traditions (Weberian political economy & the Foucauldian analysis of the exercise of power & domination), this article suggests that the cogwheels of the economy also drive the power relations engendering the domination, & sometimes repression, of the people. Based on a case study of a specific country (Tunisia) & situational context (industrial modernization), the article shows that the mechanisms controlling the populace as a whole are anchored in the most commonplace power relations & that these practices may serve as much to coerce, even repress, the citizenry as to pave the way for an "economic miracle.". Adapted from the source document.

Discusses I'll Take My Stand (1930), a collection of essays assembled by southern writer Robert Penn Warren that grew out of a symposium of the same name designed to defend the rural South against the industrializing North & honor the southern way of life. In his own contribution, "The Briar Patch," Warren explored the role of blacks in southern agrarian society, an essay that he later repudiated as defending southern segregation. Warren's positions on black rights & education, black-white relations, & a defense of rural life as the best place for black economic independence & the creation of strong black communities are noted. Warren's views are placed within the context of the arguments of I'll Take My Stand, citing fellow author Donald Davidson's declaration that it was "shocking" in its "progressive implications.". K. Hyatt Stewart

Period covered: 1971-1990s