Michael Storper:
how does international trade affect wages?
            -general equilibrium model
            -technological innovation model
            -downward pressure on unskilled and semi-skilled wages

4 tiers of globalization:
    1. winner-takes-all industries + specialized industry
    2. relocatable industries and assembly
    3. non-relocatable industries and services (low skill)
    4. middle-income, semi-skilled labor (routine manufacturing)

Move from "producerist" to "consumerist" society
    -does affluence mean more free time (Veblen)? it seems not

Consumer surplus (and rises in absolute standard of living)

Investment in public goods (U.S. v. Europe)

positionality and satisfaction
    -desirability (utility) depends on status of item (not an independent variable as economists often assume)

public goods, positionality, and the prisoner's dilemma

Hotelling's duopoly
    -is free competition always a good thing for the market?
    -Hollywood films

Leslie Salzinger:
-"Paniptimex," a Mexican subsidiary of "Electroworld," which is a U.S. subsidiary of a European conglomerate
-located at Juarez border region
-maquiladora (offshore assembly plant)
-t.v. production; 6 brand names
-workforce and conditions

-projecting an image more important than competition
-panopticon (Jeremy Benthem, Michel Foucault): discipline and self-discipline

-female workers: attractive looks, use of birth control
-a visual system of labor control
-charts, shopfloor interactions
-sexual harassment?

Carla Freeman
-Data Air, Barbados
-'pink-collar' maquila work
-company ideology and a docile workforce; professional appearances