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This article draws a parallel between two different but related debates in international political economy: first, the (Marxist) argument that if there is one thing worse than being exploited in capitalist society, it is not being exploited; second, the argument that developing countries are poor because they are insufficiently globalized. The paper challenges the second argument outright and suggests that the first is too simplistic, and does so by focusing on the question of dualism. In discussing the globalization of manufacturing production, the article demonstrates the reality of continued hierarchies in the world economy, and how these undermine dualist accounts of insufficient exploitation and/or globalization. Finally, I draw some conclusions based on an alternative understanding of globalization and labour.     

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Incurably romantic by Bernard F. Stehle Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985. (243 pp. text with 120 photographs. $30. cloth).     

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This paper describes the implementation of an On-Call Social Work Service for families experiencing sudden infant death. It argues that such a service is of great benefit to these families in that they receive the support they need from the beginning.     

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Book review in this article Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory Steven Seidman, Basil Blackwell. Not in our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature S. Rose, L.J. Kamin and R.C. Lewontin, Pelican, Harmondsworh. Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukcés to Habermas Martin Jay. Adorno Martin Jay, Fontana, London. Humanist Marxism and Wittgensteinian Social Philosophy Susan M. Easton. Daia Construction in Social Surveys Nicholas Bateson, George Allen and Unwin, Hemel Hempstead. The Three Worlds Peter Worsley, Weidenfeld and Nieolson. Lenin and the End of Politics A.J. Polan, Methuen. Great Revolutions Compared: The Search for a Theory Jarosalv Krej?í assisted by Anna Krej?ová. The Nature of Work: An Introduction to Debates on the Labour Process Paul Thompson, Macmillan. Ethnic Communities in Business Robin Ward and Richard Jenkins (eds). Industrial Relations in the Future: Trends and Possibilities in Britain over the Next Decade M. Poole, W. Brown, J. Rubery, K. Sisson, R. Tarling and F. Wilkinson, Routledge & Kegan Paul. Education Versus Qualifications? A Study of Relationships Between Education, Selection for Employment and the Productivity of Labour John Oxenham (ed.), George Allen and Unwin. The End of Law? Timothy O'Hagan, Basil Blackwell Contradictions of the Welfare State Claus Offe, edited by John Keane, Hutchinson Scotland: The Real Divide, Poverty and Deprivation in Scotland Gordon Brown and Robin Cook (eds). Against Equality: Readings on Economic and Social Policy William Letwin (ed.), Macmillan. The Idea of Natural Inequality and Other Essays André Béteille. Divisions of Labour R. E. Pahl, Basil Blaekwell. Households Richard McC. Netting, Robert R Wilk and Erie J. Arnould (eds). Identity and Stability in Marriage Janet Askham. Berger, P. and Kellner, H, (1964)‘Marriage and the construction of reality’, Diogenes. Dominian, J. (1968), Marital Breakdown, Penguin, Harmondsworth The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture Anthony D. King, Routledge & Kegan Paul. Opening Pandora's Box G. Nigel Gilbert and Michael Mulkay Our Masters’Voices Max Atkinson, Methuen Life is like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture Through Folklore Alan Dundes.