Today. Marxists who study the international political economy are primarily concerned with two sets of analytical and practical issues. The first concerns the fate of labor in a world of increasingly internationalized capital With the growth of multinational corporations and the rise of globally integrated financial markets, the greater international mobilily of capital appears to have weakened the economic and political power of labor. if workers in a particular country demand higher wages or improved health and safety measures. for example, the multinational capitalist can simply