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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001416449707536

Autore

Sassen, Saskia

Titolo

Globalization and its discontents : [essays on the new mobility of people and money] / Saskia Sassen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : New Press, c1998

ISBN

1565843959

Descrizione fisica

xxxvi, 253 p. ; 25 cm.

Disciplina

337

Soggetti

Globalizzazione

Relazioni economiche internazionali

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Subtitle from book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-241) 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.