| Description |
1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter Int-8 -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Population, Procreation and Modes of Production -- 1.1 The Microhistorical Level -- 1.2 The Macrohistorical Level -- 1.3 Industrial Society in Perspective -- 1.4 Sources on Population -- 1.5 Current Data -- Chapter 2 Historical Social Science -- 2.1 Historical Social Structures -- 2.2 World-Systems Analysis in Brief -- 2.3 Wallerstein's World-System -- 2.4 What Is Technology? |
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2.5 Other Modes of Production in Capitalism -- 2.6 World-Systems and Population -- 2.7 Institutions of the World-Economy and Population -- Chapter 3 The Principle of Population versus the Law of Capitalist Accumulation -- 3.1 Malthus's Message -- 3.2 A Biological Mechanism? -- 3.3 Population, Work and Technology in Marx -- 3.4 The Work of Boys and Girls -- 3.5 The Role of the Population in Marxism -- 3.6 Malthus Today -- Chapter 4 Demography and Its Myths -- 4.1 Naturalizations and Reifications -- 4.2 Notestein's Demographic Transition -- 4.3 Economic and Cultural Irrationality? |
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4.4 Theory and Data -- 4.5 Tribute to Demographic Expansion -- 4.6 The Second Demographic Transition -- 4.7 Why Did Mortality Fall? -- 4.8 Caldwell's Review -- Chapter 5 Dynamics of Pre- Industrial Populations -- 5.1 Ancient Populations -- 5.2 Pre-Industrial Cycles -- 5.3 Structural-Demographic Analysis -- 5.4 New Studies -- 5.5 Climate Cycles -- Chapter 6 Labor Demand and the Industrial Revolution -- 6.1 The Demand for Labor Theory -- 6.2 Modes of Production and Reproduction -- 6.3 Proto-Industrialization and Industrialization -- Chapter 7 Population Growth in Incorporated Areas |
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7.1 The European Expansion -- 7.2 The Two Stages of Incorporation -- 7.3 Colonization and Population -- 7.4 Famines and Looting -- 7.5 Inversion of the Growth Curve -- Chapter 8 Development, Population and Energy -- 8.1 Adapting to the Environment or Changing It -- 8.2 Overpopulation? -- 8.3 The Environmental Unsustainability of Capitalism -- 8.4 EROI and the Future of Capitalism -- 8.5 Conclusion: Population in the Post-Fossil Fuels Era -- End Matter -- References and Datasets -- Datasets -- Index |
| Summary |
The book sees procreation, the forgotten basis of population dynamics, and its macrohistorical results through the lenses of world-system analysis. This interdisciplinary book sheds light on the historical paths leading to the current unprecedented numbers of humans on the globe, fuelled by the capitalist demand for labor |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on July 6, 2022) |
| Subject |
Population -- Social aspects
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Reproduction.
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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Electronic books
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Population -- Social aspects
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Reproduction
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785277177 |
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1785277170 |
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9781785277184 |
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1785277189 |
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