National Industrial Structure and the Global System

Various forms of participation in the global system have been hypothesized to distort the structure of industrialization in developing countries, influencing the relations between industrial capital, labor, and output. We operationalize Kuznets's (1965) theoretical definition of industrializati...

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Published in:American sociological review 1993-04, Vol.58 (2), p.283-301
Main Authors: Bollen, Kenneth A., Appold, Stephen J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business
Consumption
Developing countries
Economic conditions
ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Energy consumption
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Imports
Industrial development
Industrial Enterprises
Industrialization
Industry
International Cooperation
Kuznets, Simon
Labor force
LABOR UNIONS (BUT NOT GUILDS)
Marxian economics
MARXISM, COMMUNISM
Minerals
Organizational Structure
Participation
Relationship
Social research
Trade
Workforce
World Economy
World order
World system position
World systems
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Summary:Various forms of participation in the global system have been hypothesized to distort the structure of industrialization in developing countries, influencing the relations between industrial capital, labor, and output. We operationalize Kuznets's (1965) theoretical definition of industrialization utilizing energy consumption per capita, percent of the labor force employed in industry, and percent of GDP accounted for by industry, to test several predictions about the effects of a country's involvement in the global system on the structure of its industrialization. We first estimate a measurement model for 1970 that includes these three basic indicators as influenced by the latent variable of industrialization. Elaborations of the basic model allow us to measure the influence of the world system on the structure of industrialization. Types of goods imported and exported affect the structure of industrialization; position in the world system and direct foreign investment have no net direct effects. A Marxist-Leninist regime has an independent influence on the structure of industrialization in some years. We replicate the model using data from 1965, 1980, and 1986.
ISSN:0003-1224
1939-8271
DOI:10.2307/2095971