Globalization and its discontents / Saskia Sassen.

Cover title reads: Globalization and its discontents : essays on the new mobility of people and money.

Introduction: whose city is it? Globalization and the formation of new claims -- Section I: People on the run -- The De Facto transnationalizing of immigration policy -- America's immigration "problem" -- Economic internationalization: the new migration in Japan and the United States -- Section II: Women under fire -- Toward a feminist analytics of the global economy -- Notes on the incorporation of third world women into wage labor through immigration and offshore production -- Section III: Bad service -- Service employment regimes and the new inequality -- The informal economy: between new developments and old regulations -- Section IV: Out of space -- Electronic space and power -- The State and the global city: notes toward a conception of place-centered governance.

"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. She demonstrates how vast chasm between metropolitan business centers and low-income inner cities has become, bringing together cultural and literary studies, feminist theory, political economics, sociology, and political science. Incisive and original, she takes on common political, cultural, and economic misconceptions of globalization and offers a thoughtful new look at our increasingly global society."-- Publisher's description.