The global city: enabilng economic intermediation and bearing its costs
Contesting the widespread notion in the 1980s that place no longer mattered to highly digitized economic sectors turned out to be the first step towards conceptualizing the Global City function. It became an effort to detect a new, somewhat elusive formation deep inside major cities. Then came 8 yea...
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I10-R355-article-227862019-08-14T09:17:01Z The global city: enabilng economic intermediation and bearing its costs La ciudad global: habilitando la intermediación económica y soportando sus costos Sassen, Saskia Global Economía Ciudad Movilidad Global Economics City Mobility Contesting the widespread notion in the 1980s that place no longer mattered to highly digitized economic sectors turned out to be the first step towards conceptualizing the Global City function. It became an effort to detect a new, somewhat elusive formation deep inside major cities. Then came 8 years of endless data analyses and exciting fieldwork. My basic mode was discovery, not replication. What was the combination of elements that might produce this ironic outcome: the fact that the most powerful, rich, and digitized economic actors needed “central places,” and perhaps more than ever before? Large corporate firms engaged in routinized production could locate anywhere. But if they went global they needed access to a whole new mix of complex specialized services almost impossible to produce in-house as had been the practice. A second hypothesis that was stronger than I expected was that this new economic logic, partial as it was, would generate high-level jobs and low- wage jobs; it would need far fewer middle-range jobs than traditional corporations. But those low-level jobs, whether in the office or in households, would matter more than one might imagine. I described them as the work of maintaining a strategic infrastructure. El debate con la extendida noción de los años ‘80 que sostenía que el lugar ya no importaba en sectores económicos altamente digitalizados, resultó ser el primer paso hacia conceptualizar la función de la Ciudad Global. Luego vinieron ocho años de interminable análisis de datos y excitante trabajo de campo. Mi modalidad básica era el descubrimiento, no la replicación. ¿Cuál era la combinación de elementos que producía este irónico desenlace, el hecho de que los actores económicos más poderosos, ricos y digitalizados necesitaban “lugares centrales”, incluso tal vez más que nunca antes? Las grandes corporaciones avanzaron en una producción rutinizada que podía estar localizada en cualquier lado. Sin embargo, si se globalizaban necesitaban acceder a una nueva combinación de servicios complejos y especializados, que eran casi imposibles de producir puertas adentro, como había sido la práctica hasta entonces. Otra hipótesis, más fuerte de lo que esperaba, era que esta nueva lógica económica -parcial como era- generaría empleo de alta categoría y empleo de bajos salarios. Necesitaría, en ese sentido, menos trabajos de rango medio que las corporaciones tradicionales. Sin embargo, esos empleos de salarios bajos -ya fueran desempeñados en las oficinas o en las casas- importaban más de lo que hubiéramos imaginado. Los describo como el trabajo de mantener la infraestructura estratégica. Instituto de Investigación de Vivienda y Hábitat 2018-12-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ReViyCi/article/view/22786 Vivienda y Ciudad; Núm. 5 (2018); 16-27 2422-670X spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ReViyCi/article/view/22786/22374 Derechos de autor 2018 Saskia Sassen |
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Contesting the widespread notion in the 1980s that place no longer mattered to highly digitized economic sectors turned out to be the first step towards conceptualizing the Global City function. It became an effort to detect a new, somewhat elusive formation deep inside major cities. Then came 8 years of endless data analyses and exciting fieldwork. My basic mode was discovery, not replication. What was the combination of elements that might produce this ironic outcome: the fact that the most powerful, rich, and digitized economic actors needed “central places,” and perhaps more than ever before? Large corporate firms engaged in routinized production could locate anywhere. But if they went global they needed access to a whole new mix of complex specialized services almost impossible to produce in-house as had been the practice. A second hypothesis that was stronger than I expected was that this new economic logic, partial as it was, would generate high-level jobs and low- wage jobs; it would need far fewer middle-range jobs than traditional corporations. But those low-level jobs, whether in the office or in households, would matter more than one might imagine. I described them as the work of maintaining a strategic infrastructure. |
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