01319nam a2200205Ia 4500001000700000003000500007005001700012008004100029020001500070035002000085040001800105100002700123245005400150260003200204300002600236504006600262505069500328650004601023650004401069217847BIBL20180821021704.0980601s1998    nyu      b    001 0 eng d  a1565843959  a(OCoLC)39206837  aDPLcDPLdMIA1 aSassen, Saskia.2Local10aGlobalization and its discontentscSaskia Sassen.  aNew YorkbNew Presscc1998.  axxxvi, 253 p.c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [219]-241) and index.0 a1. 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. 0aInternational business enterprises2Local 0aInternational economic relations2Local