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Globalization and its discontents : [essays on the new mobility of people and money]
Title:
Globalization and its discontents : [essays on the new mobility of people and money]
Author:
Sassen, Saskia.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : New Press, [1998]

©1998
Physical Description:
xxxvi, 253 pages ; 25 cm
General Note:
Subtitle from book jacket.
Language:
English
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.
ISBN:
9781565843950
Format :
Book