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Choi, Wai Kit. "Proletarianization, the Informal Proletariat and �Marx� in the Era of Globalization" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 10, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p105344_index.html>

Choi, W. , 2006-08-10 "Proletarianization, the Informal Proletariat and �Marx� in the Era of Globalization" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p105344_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: The more capitalism develops, the greater the number of people become proletariat; this is a thesis that is often attributed to Marx. If globalization is understood to mean the global expansion of capitalism, then this should suggest that, given Marx�s thesis, an increasing number of people in the world are becoming proletariat. Both Sassen and Portes deny this is the case. Sassen argues that there is the resurgence of the informal proletariat in what she calls �global cities� while Portes notes the persistence of the informal proletariat in Latin America despite its long period of continuous capitalist development. Even if the classical Marxist thesis is mistaken about the presumed growth of the proletariat, this paper will show how the informal proletariat can be accounted for in the theories of the Neo-Marxists such as Althusser and Wallerstein and demonstrate how their theories provide a more powerful conceptual framework within which we can analyze the different types of labor accompanying globalization.

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