global rightssilvana cappuccio1 globalisation and the world of work

Global rights Silvana Cappuccio 1

Globalisation and the world of work


1) What does globalization mean?

2) Ungoverned globalization

3) The trade union movement


Globalization today


Interlinked world:

New technologies

More open policies

Economic relations

Social and political interaction


» awareness of belonging to a global community


» globalization as a process which demands rules


Contradictions:

Growth/inequalities

Differences / homologation

New negative energies / strenghts


Immediate effects:

More commercial exchangesMore foreign investmentsMore weight of international businessBetter access to communicationsTransformation in the life styles


The growth of global markets has not got

a parallel development of economic and social institutions


In the last 20 years unregulated globalization….

Has deepened the gaps

Has strengthened a neo-liberist economic model


In the last 20 years,unregulated globalization has implied….

…the adoption of privatization policies

…the worsening of living conditions

…more attacks against the trade union rights

…more precarisation and incertitude


In the last 20 years,unregulated globalization has increased…

…the gap between North and South and

…people awareness of inequalities


The objective must be the globalisation process to be “fair” meaning that:

It does not exclude anybody

It is democratic

It can guarantee opportunities and advantages for all


Global economy

Unregulated competition

Unprotected labor


1,5 billion of people live in poverty (-than 2 US$ per day)

500 million live in extreme poverty (-than 1 US$ per day)


20% of world population living in the high income countries

dominates 86% of the world wealth


95% of working children live in the developing countries

28,000 children die from poverty-related causes

everyday


- 115 million school-aged children are not in school - 133 million young people cannot read and write


Two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people

are women


Over 11 million children under the age of five die each year,

most from preventable diseases


Over 2.4 billion people lack access to proper sanitation facilities and one billion lack access to drinkable water


Cows receive more aid than people (Europe’s cows receive $2/day in subsidies)

Many developing countries spend more on interest repayments on their debt than they do on health and education combined

Only 5 of the world’s rich countries give the amount of aid they committed to in 1970


- More than 500,000 women die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth every year - More than 50 million women suffer from poor reproductive health and serious pregnancy-related illness and disability


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