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Globalisation and the world of work

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1) What does globalization mean?

2) Ungoverned globalization

3) The trade union movement

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Globalization today

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Interlinked world:

New technologies

More open policies

Economic relations

Social and political interaction

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» awareness of belonging to a global community

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» globalization as a process which demands rules

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Contradictions:

Growth/inequalities

Differences / homologation

New negative energies / strenghts

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Immediate effects:

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

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The growth of global markets has not got

a parallel development of economic and social institutions

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In the last 20 years unregulated globalization….

Has deepened the gaps

Has strengthened a neo-liberist economic model

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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

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In the last 20 years,unregulated globalization has increased…

…the gap between North and South and

…people awareness of inequalities

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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

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Global economy

Unregulated competition

Unprotected labor

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

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

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20% of world population living in the high income countries

dominates 86% of the world wealth

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95% of working children live in the developing countries

28,000 children die from poverty-related causes

everyday

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

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Two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people

are women

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

most from preventable diseases

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

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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

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- 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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