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Globalisation of Work - Topics

Globalisation of Work - Issues . Babbage

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Globalisation of Work - Topics

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    1. Globalisation of Work - Topics a) Capital Extension of ‘developed’ into ‘developing world’ - b) Labour Extension of ‘developing’ into ‘developed world’

    2. Globalisation of Work - Issues Babbage & labour cheapening Risk-shifting Labour Market Segmentation: Gender & Patriarchy

    3. Relevant Course Themes Babbage Principle – labour cheapening Labour Process – separation (and relocation) of conception and execution Risk-shifting and flexibility Core and Periphery relationships

    4. Globalisation of Work - Questions What form does it take? How is it being accomplished? Who is controlling the process? Why is it occurring?

    5. Free/Export Production Zones ‘Maquiladores’ Customs & excise exemptions Tax ‘holidays’ Legal exemptions

    6. Multinational, Transnational and Global corporations Re ‘Core’ capital. These terms are sometimes used interchangeably. However a useful set of distinctions are: Multinational Corporation – Market dominant (monopoly) organisation with headquarters in the territory of one nation state but with ‘branch’ operations in the territory of other nation-states Transnational Corporation – Market dominant (monopoly) organisation that is able to move key operations among sites located in the territory of different nation-states Global Corporation – Market dominant organisation (monopoly) that has no clearly identifiable territorially based headquarters but can act independent of nation-states – ‘foot-loose capital’ Source: various but especially Sklair Globalisation: capitalism and its alternatives, Ohmae The evolving global economy: making sense of the new world order

    7. Leading Theories 1 Modernization Theory Proposes that there is, broadly, a single path of economic and social development. This path is most fully exemplified in advanced Western societies. The process of economic and social development is, essentially, that of recapitulating the history of Western societies leading to economic ‘take-off’ and self-sustaining growth. Leading concepts: DEVELOPED, DEVELOPING and UNDEVELOPED

    8. Leading Theories 2 Underdevelopment Theory Proposes that contemporary economic and social development does not follow the same process as that of the early modernisers. Instead, advanced capitalist societies control and limit the economic and social potential of other areas of the world, largely by restricting them to extractive industries, in order to protect advanced capitalism economic and political dominance. Leading concepts CORE and PERIPHERY

    9. Leading Theories 3 Globalization Theories A range of often competing and sometimes contradictory arguments that share the view that that the economic and/or political system is global i.e. transcends nation-states. That is, the world is structurally (and possibly culturally) a single system. This does not imply global uniformity. Similar processes to those that create stratification and diversification within nation-states now have a global presence. Leading concepts WORLD SYSTEM, NEW INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR, REGION/LOCALITY, GLOBALISATION/GLOCALISATION

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