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Globalization and its discontents paperback aug 1 1999. Lynd professor of sociology and cohair of the committee on global thought, columbia university. Globalization and its discontents norton paperback ebook. Sassen is internationally recognized as an expert on globalization and her writings have appeared in magazines and journals throughout the world. 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. Lynd professor of sociology and chair, the committee on global thought, columbia university. Saskia sassen university of chicago and london school of economics it is an honour and a pleasure to give the 10th ripe anniversary annual lecture, an opportunity to engage you in a discussion about the theoretical and methodological difficulties of studying and interpreting a variety of dynamics usually grouped under the term globalization. Her other books include guests and aliens, the mobility of labor and capital, losing control, and globalization and its discontents.
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Service employment regimes and the new inequality 8. Saskia sassen born in the hague, january 5, 1949 is a dutchamerican sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. Reassessing the integration of haitian immigrants in the bahamas. Toward a feminist analytics of the global economy 6. Essays discuss the effects of globalization on the nationstate, looking at dealings that both strengthen and weaken the national idea, creating a concentration of. 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. Groundbreaking essays on the new global economy from an expert observer forecast. Jul 19, 2006 saskia sassen born in the hague, january 5, 1949 is a dutch sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. From medieval to global assemblages princeton university press 2008, a sociology of globalization w. This collection of essays, from sakia sassen, asks if globalization is killing off the nation.
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Globalization and its discontents essays on the new mobility. Aug 08, 2016 the main message of globalization and its discontents was that the problem was not globalization, but how the process was being managed. Saskia sassen nations worry about their shrinking sovereignty as large numbers of immigrants cross borders at will. The centrality of liberalized financial markets to increased global interdependence is widely recognized, as is their power to discipline states. In this text sassen explores the impacts of globalization on major cities around the world, focusing not only on the flows of capital typically associated with globalization, but also on the cooccurring migration of workers.
This is brilliant stuff, both in its broadness of sociological scope and its. Saskia sassen is the ralph lewis professor of sociology at the university of chicago, and centennial visiting professor at the london school of economics. Globalization and its discontents is a worthwhile, informative if on occasion somewhat frustrating read on occasion. Notes on the incorporation of third world women into wage labor through immigration and offshore production 7. In this collection of essays, saskia sassen deals with such current topics as the global city, gender and migration, information technology, and the new dynamics of inequality.
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