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Globalisation and the world of work

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.

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Globalisation and the world of work

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  1. Globalisation and the world of work Silvana Cappuccio

  2. 1) What does globalization mean? • 2) Ungoverned globalization • 3) The trade union movement Silvana Cappuccio

  3. Globalization today Silvana Cappuccio

  4. Interlinked world: • New technologies • More open policies • Economic relations • Social and political interaction Silvana Cappuccio

  5. » awareness of belonging to a global community Silvana Cappuccio

  6. » globalization as a process which demands rules Silvana Cappuccio

  7. Contradictions: • Growth/inequalities • Differences / homologation • New negative energies / strenghts Silvana Cappuccio

  8. Immediate effects: • More commercial exchanges • More foreign investments • More weight of international business • Better access to communications • Transformation in the life styles Silvana Cappuccio

  9. The growth of global markets has not got a parallel development of economic and social institutions Silvana Cappuccio

  10. In the last 20 years unregulated globalization…. • Has deepened the gaps • Has strengthened a neo-liberist economic model Silvana Cappuccio

  11. 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 Silvana Cappuccio

  12. In the last 20 years,unregulated globalization has increased… …the gap between North and South and …people awareness of inequalities Silvana Cappuccio

  13. 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 Silvana Cappuccio

  14. Global economyUnregulated competition Unprotected labor Silvana Cappuccio

  15. 1,5 billion of people live in poverty (-than 2 US$ per day) 500 million live in extreme poverty (-than 1 US$ per day) Silvana Cappuccio

  16. 20% of world population living in the high income countries dominates 86% of the world wealth Silvana Cappuccio

  17. 95% of working children live in the developing countries Silvana Cappuccio

  18. 28,000 children die from poverty-related causes everyday Silvana Cappuccio

  19. - 115 million school-aged children are not in school - 133 million young people cannot read and write Silvana Cappuccio

  20. Two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people are women Silvana Cappuccio

  21. Over 11 million children under the age of five die each year, most from preventable diseases Silvana Cappuccio

  22. Over 2.4 billion people lack access to proper sanitation facilities and one billion lack access to drinkable water Silvana Cappuccio

  23. 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 combinedOnly 5 of the world’s rich countries give the amount of aid they committed to in 1970 Silvana Cappuccio

  24. - 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 Silvana Cappuccio

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