Social polarisation

Question 1

Sassen.1991

Answer 1

• Key feature of Sassen’s global city thesis is growing social polarisation
• Growth of the top and bottom end of the labour market, decline of middle income groups
• Major growth industries show a greater incidence of jobs at the high and low pay
• Growth of APS

Question 2

Hamnett,C.1993

Answer 2

• Structure of housing market and welfare state has boosted the number of poor in the large cities. A tendency which has been reinforced by suburbanisation of the middle class.
• Not all higher income groups have opted for a house in a suburban setting, pockets of attractive, expensive housing can be found in the city
• professionalisation has occurred, whereby there is a growth of managerial and professional jobs along with sharp declines of skilled and semi skilled manual jobs.