This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world.

The paper discusses in a personal appreciation of the literature whether the ‘interlocking world city network model’ (IWCNM) has contributed to overcoming the evidential crisis of world or global city research. After a brief summary of the main arguments made by John Friedmann and Saskia...

The paper begins with an introduction into the interlocking network model (INM) initially specified by Peter Taylor in the context of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network. For that purpose, the intellectual background, purpose, key principles and subsequent applications of...

Was haben ein Straßenverkäufer in Ső Paulo, eine Heimstrickerin in Istanbul, eine Pizzazustellerin in New York und ein Trio von KFZ-Ersatzteilmechanikern in Tokio oder Moskau gemeinsam? Wenn ihre Arbeitsverhältnisse ungeregelt und sozialrechtlich nicht abgesichert sind, und die Löhne unter...