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Globalization and its discontents : essays on the new mobility of people and money / Saskia Sassen ; with a foreword by K. Anthony Appiah.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New Press, c1998.Description: xxxvi, 254 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1565845188 (Taurus / New Press)
  • 9781565845183 (paperback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JZ1318 .S27 1998
Contents:
1. Introduction: Whose city is it? Globalization and the formation of new claims -- 2. The de facto transnationalizing of immigration policy -- 3. America's immigration "problem" -- 4. Economic internationalization: the new migration in Japan and the United States -- 5. Toward a feminist analytics of the global economy -- 6. Notes on the incorporation of Third World women into wage labor through immigration and offshore production -- 7. Service employment regimes and the new inequality -- 8. The informal economy: between new developments and old regulations -- 9. Electronic space and power -- 10. The state and the global city: notes toward a conception of place-centered governance.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243) and index.

1. Introduction: Whose city is it? Globalization and the formation of new claims -- 2. The de facto transnationalizing of immigration policy -- 3. America's immigration "problem" -- 4. Economic internationalization: the new migration in Japan and the United States -- 5. Toward a feminist analytics of the global economy -- 6. Notes on the incorporation of Third World women into wage labor through immigration and offshore production -- 7. Service employment regimes and the new inequality -- 8. The informal economy: between new developments and old regulations -- 9. Electronic space and power -- 10. The state and the global city: notes toward a conception of place-centered governance.

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