TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sassen,Saskia
TI  - Globalization and its discontents
SN  - 1565843959
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - New Press
KW  - International business enterprises
KW  - Local
KW  - International economic relations
N1  - 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
ER  -