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Global rights Silvana Cappuccio 1
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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