Colonial capitalism already created a world labor market before globalization

Evidence

In the 1980s and 1990s, huge new population movements affected Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Such migrations were not without precedent: as pointed out above, colonialism and the rise of capitalism had led to the emergence of a world labor market long before the era of globalization. But economic and political conditions had led to a relative lull in migration in the first half of the twentieth century. From the 1950s, new movements emerged, linked to decolonization, globalization, and the emergence of new industrial economies. The migration systems of the South have become closely interlinked with those of the North, making efforts by Western countries to exclude the postcolonial Other even more futile. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3873

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism was expanding before Marx as colonial extraction — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 41; Colonialism created the conditions for modern capitalism’s emergence — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 251; Colonialism and capitalism have been entangled since the sixteenth century — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 41 (+1 more)