Globalization, urban economic restructuring, and gendered socioeconomic inequality: A comparative study of Tel Aviv and Haifa

Abstract

In recent decades, processes of postindustrialization, economic restructuring, and globalization have been transforming the landscape of social and economic inequalities in general (Wade, 2003), and in urban settings in particular (Baum, 1997; Fainstein, 1990; Sassen, 1990a, 1991, 1998; Waldinger, 1996). The role of cities as strategic sites in the globalization process and as arenas of economic transformation is central in the literature of globalization and economic restructuring (Fainstein, 2000; Sassen, 1988, 1998).

Citation

Raijman, R., Menahem, G. and Kemp, A. (2008), "Globalization, urban economic restructuring, and gendered socioeconomic inequality: A comparative study of Tel Aviv and Haifa", DeSena, J.N. (Ed.) Gender in an Urban World (Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 285-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1047-0042(07)00011-6