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Globalization is often discussed in rather general terms as the worldwide transmission of media symbols and consumer lifestyles (see Sklair, 1991) or capital and markets (Wallerstein, 1983; Harvey, 1989; Jameson, 1991). Such flows of communication can result in new social relations as people become ‘disembedded’ from their normal contexts and are connected in other ways with those from other contexts at a transnational level (Giddens, 1990). Sassen (1996) has described the role of ‘global cities’ as poles of attraction for these international flows of people and capital, emphasizing in particular the creation of an immigrant underclass often working in the informal economy, which is juxtaposed with a ‘post-industrial’ class of professionals. However, these discussions are pitched at a very general level rather than looking in detail at particular instances. They tend to consider globalization in terms of universal principles and the economic imperative is seen either implicitly or explicitly as the inevitable driving force towards globalization. In this respect Marxists, post-Marxists and neoliberal economists converge in agreement: seeing the market as
that concrete, time-bounded, space-bounded integrated locale of productive activities within which the endless accumulation of capital has been the economic objective or ‘law’ that has governed or prevailed. (Wallerstein, 1983, p. 18)
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Wallace, C. (1999). Crossing Borders: Mobility of Goods, Capital and People in the Central European Region. In: Brah, A., Hickman, M.J., an Ghaill, M.M. (eds) Global Futures. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378537_10
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