CAPITALISM AND DEVELOPMENT 
LESLIE SKLAIR
The book seeks to clarify the histories and theories of capitalist development. It provides an introduction to the main theories of capitalist development and critiques of the main problems that capitalist development still has to solve around the world. These critiques are grounded in studies of key sectors of capitalist development—electronics, automobiles, agribusiness, apparel, tourism and the cross-cutting areas of commodity chains and women’s work. These chapters ask if capitalism cannot ‘develop the Third World’ through these industries, then how can it do so at all? The contributors argue that not even the most enthusiastic proponents of the capitalist road to development would argue that capitalism has solved all its problems in the Third World. The book will interest students in Social Science, development and international business studies courses; the public interested in ‘Third World’ issues; and people working in development agencies of various types.
 Leslie Sklair is Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics. He has been a consultant for the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, the UN Commission on Latin America, the ILO and the Office of Technology Assessment, US Congress. 
Contributors: Henry Bernstein; Richard Child Hill; Mahmoud Dhaouadi; Diane Elson; Gary Gereffi; David Harrison; Jeffrey Henderson; Rhys Jenkins; Yong Joo Lee; Kyong-Dong Kim; Philip McMichael; Maria Mies; Ronaldo Munck; Ruth Pearson; Laura Raynolds; Michael Redclift; Leslie Sklair; Immanuel Wallerstein.

PUBLISHED 1994