Globalization and Its Discontents

by Sassen, Saskia

• ISBN13: 9781565845183
• ISBN10: 1565845188
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

Is globalization killing off the nation state? Columbia University Professor of Urban Planning Saskia Sassen elucidates the opaque dealings that both weaken and strengthen the national idea. What emerges from Sassen's review is a portrait of a radical global concentration of resources and might--with a diminishment of accountability.

Table of Contents

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Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims
The De Facto Transnationalizing of Immigration Policy	p. 5
America's Immigration "Problem"	p. 31
Economic Internationalization: The New Migration in Japan and the United States	p. 55
Toward a Feminist Analytics of the Global Economy	p. 81
Notes on the Incorporation of Third World Women into Wage Labor Through Immigration and Offshore Production	p. 111
Service Employment Regimes and the New Inequality	p. 137
The Informal Economy: Between New Developments and Old Regulations	p. 153
Electronic Space and Power	p. 177
The State and the Global City: Notes Toward a Conception of Place-Centered Governance	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 243
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