Globalization and its discontents /

• Main Author: Sassen, Saskia, 1947-
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : The New Press, c1998.
• Series: Political Science / Economics
• Subjects: GLOBALIZACION; SOCIOLOGIA; MIGRACIONES; BUENOS AIRES; COLECCION REBORATTI

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims
• People On The Run
• 2. The de facto transnarionalizing of Immigration Policy
• 3. America's Immigration Problem
• 4. Economic Internationalization: The New Migration in Japan and the United States
• Women Under Fire
• 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
• Bad service
• 7. Service Employment Regimes and the New Inequality
• 8. The Informal Economy: Between New Developments and Old Regulations
• Out of space
• 9. Electronic Space and Power
• 10. The State and the Global City: Votes Toward a Conception of Place-Centered Governance.