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Territory, authority, rights princeton university press. Globalization and its discontents by saskia sassen, sassen. She demonstrates how vast the chasm between metropolitan business centers and lowincome inner cities has become. 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 is the author of the global city princeton, the mobility of labor and capital, and globalization and its discontents, and coeditor of digital formations princeton.
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