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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] / Saskia Sassen.
Author
Sassen, Saskia.
Publication
New York : New Press, c1998.

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Description
xxxvi, 253 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • International economic relations
  • International business enterprises
Note
  • Subtitle from book jacket.
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
JBE 98-1149
ISBN
1565843959
OCLC
39206837
Author
Sassen, Saskia.
Title
Globalization and its discontents : [essays on the new mobility of people and money] / Saskia Sassen.
Imprint
New York : New Press, c1998.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-241) and index.
Research Call Number
JBE 98-1149
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