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Turin, 15 - 19 March 2006 Yuliya Simeonova

Different Forms and Impacts of Globalisation What is globalisation? Different levels of globalisation Players’ strategies. Turin, 15 - 19 March 2006 Yuliya Simeonova. Definition. a method of production (capitalism, now in a phase of financial capitalism)

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Turin, 15 - 19 March 2006 Yuliya Simeonova

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  1. Different Forms and Impacts of Globalisation What is globalisation? Different levels of globalisation Players’ strategies Turin, 15 - 19 March 2006Yuliya Simeonova

  2. Definition • a method of production (capitalism, now in a phase of financial capitalism) • an ideology and form of government (neo-liberalism) • and cultural and trade domination (and when needed, military domination) by Western countries. What you call globalisation is nothing more than the final phase of the Westernisation of the world

  3. The term "globalisation" refers to a process by which financial capitalismtends to impose its interests on every society on the planet and to all sectorsof society (labour, consumption, culture, public management, etc.) It is a process that extends to the entire planet a mode of production, a politicalideology (neo-liberalism) and a dominant culture (that of the USA andsecondarily that of Western Europe): producing effects of polarisationand growing inequalities, rather than uniformisation. Abolishing borders andimposing the same rules on everyone leads to greater inequalities betweenthe dominant and the dominated

  4. Globalisation is intentional and organised by a consortium of actors, financialand industrial, political and military; these actors are many and dissimilar,but are linked by common interests and far-reaching lobbies. Theseactors put forward identifiable choices and give rise to resistance by other actors The process is not entirely new: globalisation is a stage in the developmentof capitalism; this stage has certain new characteristics (telecommunications,increased power of finance); it also has certain regressive aspects(deregulation); but fundamentally it prolongs the development of capitalism

  5. Мain aspects of globalisation Internationalisation of trade Internationalisation of production Internationalisation of capital

  6. Main players Multinational companies – Direct foreign Investment International finance organisations and WTO European Union

  7. From the consensus of Bretton Woods to the Washington consensus Deregulation of financial markets (N. York, Tokyo…. Deregulation of Direct foreign Investment: competition between states Deregulation of trade (GATT – WTO) and regionalization (EU, MERCOSUR, ALIENA, APEC…) The triumph of globalisation

  8. Unequal globalisation Globalisation is not global Impact on regional level Impact on national level Impact on local level (country, town, community) Impact on Trade unions

  9. Mains concerns/issues • How the trade unions in different countries see the globalisation? • How does globalisation influence the realities of workers on a national level? • How does globalisation influence the organisation and action • of trade unions? • What are the instruments for effective regulation? • What trade unions strategy at • national • European and • international level?

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