Mobility of Labor and Capital
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780511598296 |
| Open Library | OL25665948W |
| Total publications | 7 |
| Coverage period | 1988 - 2011 |
| Language | EN |
In this empirical study, Saskia Sassen offers a fresh understanding of the processes of international migration. Focusing on immigration into the US from 1960 to 1985 and the part played by American economic activities abroad, as well as foreign investment in the US, she examines the various ways in which the internationalization of production contributes to the formation and direction of labor migration
Mobility of Labor and Capital
In this empirical study, Saskia Sassen offers a fresh understanding of the processes of international migration. Focusing on immigration into the US from 1960 to 1985 and the part played by American economic activities abroad, as well as foreign investment in the US, she examines the various ways in which the internationalization of production contributes to the formation and direction of labor migration.
The reconcentration of capital in the United States
There is today a global marketplace of production sites. The decade of the 1970s saw the massive and rapid development of such production sites in select areas of South-East Asia and the Caribbean Basin. And towards the late 1970s cities such as New York and Los Angeles emerge as major locations for the placement of international financial investments and for the production of specialized services for the world market. To these two developments I…
The new immigration
Immigration to the United States has changed from a preponderance of high-wage countries of origin in the 1950s to one of low-wage countries of origin in the 1970s. This recomposition cannot be taken for granted, especially since the family reunion emphasis of the 1965 Immigration Act was expected to bring in the relatives of those already here, i.e., mostly Europeans. Secondly, the data show that there has been a massive increase in annual entri…
The rise of global cities and the new labor demand
The developments described in the preceding chapter contribute to explain the emergence of new migration streams to the United States. The developments addressed in this chapter contribute to explain the continuation of these migrations at increasing levels. That is to say, the preceding chapter identified conditions for the formation of a migrant labor supply in the sending countries, while the current chapter focuses on the conditions influenci…
The use of foreign workers
The use of foreign labor, whether slaves or immigrants, has been a basic tendency in the development of industrial economies. In most accounts of capitalist development, the struggle by employers to recruit and maintain an adequate labor supply has been overshadowed by the problems of realization, most particularly, market expansion. However, a central precondition for the realization of the surplus-generating possibilities of a geographic locati…
The globalization of production
Why did high outmigration from various countries discussed in the preceding chapter occur at a time when these countries had high industrial growth rates and major increases in direct foreign investment while the U.S. economy was marked by growing unemployment and inflation? The overall levels of entries for Asian and Caribbean Basin immigrants kept growing in the 1970s, a decade when unemployment was particularly high in the U.S. and the recessi…
Foreign investment
There is considerable evidence both on international labor migrations and on the internationalization of production. But they are mostly two separate bodies of scholarship. Analytically these two processes have been constructed into unrelated categories. As socioeconomic givens, there are certain locations where one can identify the presence of both. Our question then becomes whether there is an articulation between these two processes and, if so…
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The reconcentration of capital in the United States
There is today a global marketplace of production sites. The decade of the 1970s saw the massive and rapid development of such production sites in select areas of South-East Asia and the Caribbean Basin. And towards the late 1970s cities such as New York and Los Angeles emerge as major locations for the placement of international financial investments and for the production of specialized services for the world market. To these two developments I…
The new immigration
Immigration to the United States has changed from a preponderance of high-wage countries of origin in the 1950s to one of low-wage countries of origin in the 1970s. This recomposition cannot be taken for granted, especially since the family reunion emphasis of the 1965 Immigration Act was expected to bring in the relatives of those already here, i.e., mostly Europeans. Secondly, the data show that there has been a massive increase in annual entri…
The rise of global cities and the new labor demand
The developments described in the preceding chapter contribute to explain the emergence of new migration streams to the United States. The developments addressed in this chapter contribute to explain the continuation of these migrations at increasing levels. That is to say, the preceding chapter identified conditions for the formation of a migrant labor supply in the sending countries, while the current chapter focuses on the conditions influenci…
The use of foreign workers
The use of foreign labor, whether slaves or immigrants, has been a basic tendency in the development of industrial economies. In most accounts of capitalist development, the struggle by employers to recruit and maintain an adequate labor supply has been overshadowed by the problems of realization, most particularly, market expansion. However, a central precondition for the realization of the surplus-generating possibilities of a geographic locati…
The globalization of production
Why did high outmigration from various countries discussed in the preceding chapter occur at a time when these countries had high industrial growth rates and major increases in direct foreign investment while the U.S. economy was marked by growing unemployment and inflation? The overall levels of entries for Asian and Caribbean Basin immigrants kept growing in the 1970s, a decade when unemployment was particularly high in the U.S. and the recessi…
Foreign investment
There is considerable evidence both on international labor migrations and on the internationalization of production. But they are mostly two separate bodies of scholarship. Analytically these two processes have been constructed into unrelated categories. As socioeconomic givens, there are certain locations where one can identify the presence of both. Our question then becomes whether there is an articulation between these two processes and, if so…
Mobility of Labor and Capital
In this empirical study, Saskia Sassen offers a fresh understanding of the processes of international migration. Focusing on immigration into the US from 1960 to 1985 and the part played by American economic activities abroad, as well as foreign investment in the US, she examines the various ways in which the internationalization of production contributes to the formation and direction of labor migration.