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Author Sassen, Saskia.

Title Globalization and its discontents / Saskia Sassen.

Imprint New York : New Press, c1998.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  337 Sa79g    ---  Available
Description xxxvi, 253 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-241) and index.
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.
Subject International economic relations.
International business enterprises.
ISBN 1565843959

 
    
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