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Explore the impacts of globalization on world economies, labor, and social structures. Discussing the significance of rules, inequality, and the need for fair globalization. Highlighting disparities in wealth distribution, poverty, education, and healthcare, urging for a more equitable global system.
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Globalisation and the world of work Silvana Cappuccio
1) What does globalization mean? • 2) Ungoverned globalization • 3) The trade union movement Silvana Cappuccio
Globalization today Silvana Cappuccio
Interlinked world: • New technologies • More open policies • Economic relations • Social and political interaction Silvana Cappuccio
» awareness of belonging to a global community Silvana Cappuccio
» globalization as a process which demands rules Silvana Cappuccio
Contradictions: • Growth/inequalities • Differences / homologation • New negative energies / strenghts Silvana Cappuccio
Immediate effects: • More commercial exchanges • More foreign investments • More weight of international business • Better access to communications • Transformation in the life styles Silvana Cappuccio
The growth of global markets has not got a parallel development of economic and social institutions Silvana Cappuccio
In the last 20 years unregulated globalization…. • Has deepened the gaps • Has strengthened a neo-liberist economic model Silvana Cappuccio
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
In the last 20 years,unregulated globalization has increased… …the gap between North and South and …people awareness of inequalities Silvana Cappuccio
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
Global economyUnregulated competition Unprotected labor Silvana Cappuccio
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
20% of world population living in the high income countries dominates 86% of the world wealth Silvana Cappuccio
95% of working children live in the developing countries Silvana Cappuccio
28,000 children die from poverty-related causes everyday Silvana Cappuccio
- 115 million school-aged children are not in school - 133 million young people cannot read and write Silvana Cappuccio
Two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people are women Silvana Cappuccio
Over 11 million children under the age of five die each year, most from preventable diseases Silvana Cappuccio
Over 2.4 billion people lack access to proper sanitation facilities and one billion lack access to drinkable water Silvana Cappuccio
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
- 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