Item Details
Skip Navigation Links
   ActiveUsers:2699Hits:21029966Skip Navigation Links
Show My Basket
Contact Us
IDSA Web Site
Ask Us
Today's News
HelpExpand Help
Advanced search

In Basket
  Journal Article   Journal Article
 

ID151318
Title Properuneven and combined development of class forces
Other Title Informationmigration as combined development
LanguageENG
AuthorEvans, Jessica
Summary / Abstract (Note)One of the more interesting and potentially powerful developments within Marxist approaches to the field of international relations has been the recent revival of Trotsky’s concept of uneven and combined development (UCD). However, it appears that there have been very few attempts within this literature to specify in concrete terms what is meant by mechanisms of ‘combination’. Failing this, UCD runs the risk of falling into triviality. To this end, this article suggests that migration has historically functioned as a crucial element of combined development, contributing to the uneven incorporation of non-capitalist societies into the remit of a developing world capitalist market. As illustration, I take settler-colonial development and the Great Atlantic Migrations as my focal point, drawing out a comparative study of Argentine and Canadian wheat production in the late nineteenth century. In positing these migrations as mechanisms of combined development I suggest that such were the means by which both European capitalism developed extensively and intensively and New World societies were subjected to the ‘pressures of backwardness’, compelled to transform their own social relations of production.
`In' analytical NoteCambridge Review of International Affairs Vol. 29, No.3; Sep 2016: p.1061-1073
Journal SourceCambridge Review of International Affairs Vol: 29 No 3
Key WordsMigration ;  Combined Development ;  European Capitalism ;  Class Forces


 
 
Media / Other Links  Full Text