Michael Peter Smith is author of The City and Social Theory (1980) and City, State and Market. Joe R. Feagin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of The Urban Real Estate Game (1983).

• Part I Introduction 1 Cities and the New International Division of Labor: An Overview 3Part II Theoretical Perspectives: The Global Economy, the State and the City2 World-System Theory and the Study of Comparative Urbanization 373 Cities and the International Division of Labor 664 Urban Theory Reconsidered: Production, Reproduction and Collective Action 87Part III Economic Restructuring in Cities: A Global Perspective5 The Politics of Dependency in Deindustrializing America: The Case of Buffalo, New York 1136 Growth and Informalization at the Core: A Preliminary Report on New York City 1387 Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global Perspective 1558 Economic Restructuring and the Internationalization of the Los Angeles Region 1789 Lima and the New International Division of Labor 199Part IV State Responses to Global Restructuring10 The State, Capital and Urban Change in Britain 21511 Plant Closures in Socialist France 23712 Urbanization, the Informal Economy and State Policy in Latin America 252Part V Local Responses to Global Restructuring: Community, Household and Urban Politics13 Community and Corporations in the Restructuring of Industry 27514 Urban Survival Strategies, Family Structure and Informal Practices 29715 Local Mobilization and Economic Discontent 32316 Restructuring and Popular Opposition in West German Cities 34317 Urban Protest and the Global Political Economy: The IMF Riots 364List of Contributors 387Index 389