Globalization and its discontents /​ Saskia Sassen ; foreword by K. A. Appiah

Title

• Globalization and its discontents / Saskia Sassen ; [with a foreword by K. Anthony Appiah].

Also Titled

• Globalization and its discontents : essays on the new mobility of people and money

Author

• Sassen, Saskia.

Other Authors

• Appiah, Anthony.

Published

• New York : New Press, 1998.

Content Types

• text

Carrier Types

• volume

Physical Description

• xxxvi, 254 p. ; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Globalization.
• Auswirkung.
• Globalisierung.
• Internationalisierung.
• Emigration and immigration.
• International economic integration.
• Economic development.
• Capital movements.
• Entreprises multinationales.
• Mondialisation.
• Émigration et immigration -- Politique gouvernementale.
• State, The -- Philosophy.
• International trade.
• Labor mobility.
• International finance.
• International economic relations -- Social aspects.
• International business enterprises.
• International economic relations.
• Globalização (aspectos político-socioeconômicos)
• Relações econômicas internacionais.
• Imigração (aspectos político-socioeconômicos)
• Emigration and immigration
• Equality
• Globalization Economic aspects
• Globalization Social aspects
• International finance
• International trade
• Labor mobility
• State, The Philosophy

Summary

• Auth: Columbia University, Collection of prev. pub. economics pprs. womens' & multicult. issues.

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.

Notes

• Includes index.
• Includes bibliographical references.

Language

• English

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