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Territory, Authority, Rights
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 35.00Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights , one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "denationalization," it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled... more...
The Mobility of Labor and Capital
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 44.00Offering a fresh understanding of the processes of international migration and specifically the US from 1960 to 1985. more...
The Global City
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 42.00This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global... more...
Digital Formations
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 42.00Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software development communities, transnational corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas... more...
Latino Metropolis
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 67.50Los Angeles: scratch the surface of the city?s image as a rich mosaic of multinational cultures and a grittier truth emerges?its huge, shimmering economy was built on the backs of largely Latino immigrants and still depends on them. This book exposes the underside of the development and restructuring that have turned Los Angeles into a global city,... more...
Handbook of Public Sociology
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 38.99The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory and practice. It pays particular attention to how public sociology can complement more traditional types of sociological practice to advance both the analytical power of the discipline and its ability to benefit society. The volume features... more...
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