Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on
the New Mobility of People and Money
by: Saskia Sassen
(01 June 1999) Key: citeulike:631023
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Abstract
Groundbreaking essays on the new global economy from an "expert
observer" (Forecast). Saskia Sassen is an internationally recognized expert
on globalization whose writings have appeared in journals and magazines
worldwide. Now available in paperback, Globalization and Its Discontents is a
collection of Sassen's essays dealing with topics such as the "global city,"
gender and migration (reconceived as the globalization of labor), information
technology, and the new dynamics of inequality. Sassen brings together
cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, political economics, sociology,
and political science, showing how vast the chasm between metropolitan
business centers and low-income inner cities has become. Incisive and
original, she takes on common political, cultural, and economic
misconceptions of globalization and offers a thoughtful, provocative new look
at our increasingly global society.