Two Stops in Today's New Global Geographies

Shaping Novel Labor Supplies and Employment Regimes

Bibliographic Data

ID3758966
AuthorsSassen (0000-0002-3468-6923, Columbia University, corresponding author), Saskia Sassen (Columbia University, New York, NY,)
Year2008
Volume52
Issue3
Pages457-496
Publication date2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764208325312
OpenAlexW2134427076
LanguageEN
Citations received39
References cited90

The key variable is the incipient formation of global labor markets at the top and bottom of the economic system. At the top there is the transnational market for high-level managerial and professional talent across economic sectors, from finance to engineering; this market is increasingly shaped by public and private regulations. At the bottom one finds an amalgamation of mostly informal flows, with the "global care chains" among the most visible ones. There are sites of complex intersection between these two markets. The two sites singled out for examining the formation of these labor circuits are the global city and a set of Global South countries subject to the international debt-financing regime that puts governments, firms, and households under enormous constraints to survive. Emigration and people trafficking now generate money flows that help governments, firms, and households survive. The focus is especially on lower labor circuits and their feminizing

Business · Debt · Economics · Intersection (aeronautics) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Finance · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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