CONTENTS PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Cities and the New International Division of Labor : An Overview foe R. Feagin and Michael Peter Smith 3 PART II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, THE STATE AND THE CITY 2. World-System Theory - and the Study of Comparative Urbanization Michael Timberlake 37 3. Cities and the International Division of Labor Norman J. Glickman 66 4. Urban Theory Reconsidered : Production, Reproduction and Collective Action Michael Peter Smith and Richard Tardanico 87 PART III ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING IN CITIES: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE 5. The Politics of Dependency in Deindustrializing America : The Case of Buffalo, New York David C. Perry 113 6. Growth and Informalization at the Core : A Preliminary Report on New York City Saskia Sassen -Koob 138 7. Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global Perspective Richard Child Hill and Joe R. Feagin 155 8. Economic Restructuring and the Internationalization of the Los Angeles Region Edward W.Soja 178 9. Lima and the New International Division of Labor Patricia Ann Wihon 199 PART IV STATE RESPONSES TO GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING 10. The State, Capital and Urban Change in Britain Desmond S. King215 11. Plant Closures in Socialist France Sophie Body-Gendrot 237 12. Urbanization, the Informal Economy and State Policy in Latin America Helen I. Sofa 252 PART V LOCAL RESPONSES TO GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING : COMMUNITY, HOUSEHOLD AND URBAN POLITICS 13. Community and Corporations in the Restructuring of Industry June Nash 275 14. Urban Survival Strategies, Family Structure and Informal Practices Enzo Mingione 297 15. Local Mobilization and Economic Discontent Susan S. Fainstein 323 16. Restructuring and Popular Opposition in West German Cities Margit Mayer 343 17. Urban Protest and the Global Political Economy : The IMF Riots John Walton 364 List of Contributors 387 Index 389