JOAN SMITH is Professor of Sociology and a Research Associate at the Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York at Binghamton.JANE COLLINS is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton.TERENCE K. HOPKINS is Director of Doctoral Studies in Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Board Member of the university's Fernand Braudel Center.AKBAR MUHAMMAD is Associate Professor of African and Islamic History at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

• General Orientation The Ideological Tensions of Capitalism: Universalism versus Racism and Sexism by Immanuel Wallerstein Cultural Parameters of Sexism and Racism in the International Division of Labor by June Nash The World-System and the Creation of Race and Gender Minorities and the World-System: Theoretical and Political Implications of the Internationalization of Minorities by Martha E. Gimenez Images of Docility: Asian Women and World-Economy by Nancy Melissa Lutz Capital and Gender in the Third World: Theoretical Analysis of the Current Crisis by Peter F. Bell "A Tailor is Nothing Without a Wife, and Very Often a Child": Gender and Labor Force Formation in the New York Garment Industry, 1880-1920 by Kathie Friedman Kasaba Race and Gender and the Creation of Work in the World-System Gender Relations in the World-Economy: Competition in the Textile Industry, 1850-1900 by Ann E. Forsythe and Roberto P. Korzeniewicz Female Resistance to Marginalization: The Igbo Women's War of 1929 by Kathryn B. Ward Degraded Work and Devalued Labor: The Proletarianization of Women in the Semiconductor Industry by John Horton and Eun-Jin Lee "Ethnicity" and "Race" in the Small Business Literature: Some Lessons from the World-Systems Perspective by Richard Williams Uneven Development and the Origins of Split Labor Market Discrimination: A Comparision of Black, Chinese, and Mexican Immigrant Minorities in the United States by Terry Boswell and David Jorjani Asian-American Success in Hawaii: Myth, Reality, or Artifact of Women's Labor by James Geschwender and Rita Carroll-Seguin Bibliography Index

JOAN SMITH is Professor of Sociology and a Research Associate at the Fernand Braudel Center at the State University of New York at Binghamton.JANE COLLINS is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton.TERENCE K. HOPKINS is Director of Doctoral Studies in Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Board Member of the university's Fernand Braudel Center.AKBAR MUHAMMAD is Associate Professor of African and Islamic History at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

• General Orientation The Ideological Tensions of Capitalism: Universalism versus Racism and Sexism by Immanuel Wallerstein Cultural Parameters of Sexism and Racism in the International Division of Labor by June Nash The World-System and the Creation of Race and Gender Minorities and the World-System: Theoretical and Political Implications of the Internationalization of Minorities by Martha E. Gimenez Images of Docility: Asian Women and World-Economy by Nancy Melissa Lutz Capital and Gender in the Third World: Theoretical Analysis of the Current Crisis by Peter F. Bell "A Tailor is Nothing Without a Wife, and Very Often a Child": Gender and Labor Force Formation in the New York Garment Industry, 1880-1920 by Kathie Friedman Kasaba Race and Gender and the Creation of Work in the World-System Gender Relations in the World-Economy: Competition in the Textile Industry, 1850-1900 by Ann E. Forsythe and Roberto P. Korzeniewicz Female Resistance to Marginalization: The Igbo Women's War of 1929 by Kathryn B. Ward Degraded Work and Devalued Labor: The Proletarianization of Women in the Semiconductor Industry by John Horton and Eun-Jin Lee "Ethnicity" and "Race" in the Small Business Literature: Some Lessons from the World-Systems Perspective by Richard Williams Uneven Development and the Origins of Split Labor Market Discrimination: A Comparision of Black, Chinese, and Mexican Immigrant Minorities in the United States by Terry Boswell and David Jorjani Asian-American Success in Hawaii: Myth, Reality, or Artifact of Women's Labor by James Geschwender and Rita Carroll-Seguin Bibliography Index