![]() Sassen argues that for them, this is empowering. As these global cities have grown, white women have increasingly undertaken higher level jobs. Sassen notes that these global cities are actually operated by these low wage workers, encompassing “30 to 50 percent of workers in leading sectors” (262). ![]() Reproductive and low wage work allow these central locations to exist. ![]() This is the reason why so many low wage workers have migrated to different countries. However, she maintains that both the top and bottom earning occupations have been globalized, whereas mid-level jobs have stayed local. In addition, Sassen argues through her redefinition of globalization that even global markets require central locations. Despite their involvement, the current and most publicized definition of globalization “privileges global transmission over the material infrastructure that makes it possible information over the workers who produce it,” and thus low wage work is effectively being erased (254). These spheres are connected – in that one can participate in a global city through the process of a survival circuit. These migrant women have become involved in “global cities” – with service and reproductive jobs such as janitors and nannies, and in “survival circuits” – with practices such as sex work and trafficking. She notes that “it seems reasonable to assume that there are significant links between globalization and women’s migration, whether voluntary or forced” (255). She emphasizes that globalization is just as much about migrant workers and women as it is high powered jobs, economies, and governments. In “Global Cities and Survival Circuits,” Saskia Sassen argues for the redefinition of the term “globalization.” Globalization is the interaction of people, governments, and economies on a global scale.
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