Download or read book A Fair Globalization written by World Commission On The Social Dimension Of Globalization and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Fair Globalization written by and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2004 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization was established as an independent body by the International Labour Organization in February 2002, in light of the unprecedented socio-economic changes implemented by globalisation trends. This report explores how the ILO can help promote the objective that decent work should become a global goal. It examines six broad policy themes related to: national policies to address globalisation; decent work in global production systems; growth, investment and employment; constructing a socio-economic floor; the global economy and the cross-border movement of people; and strengthening the international labour standards system. The report also discusses how the ILO can respond to the Commission's call for the multilateral system to enhance participation and accountability and to make a full contribution to the building of a social dimension for globalisation.
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Download or read book Offshoring and the Internationalization of Employment written by Peter Auer and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers examines key trends in the internationalisation of employment, drawing on the proceedings of an ILO conference held in Annecy, France in April 2005. The papers focus on three related issues: the impacts of trade and investment abroad, including the offshoring of production of goods and services, and effects on the winners and losers in terms of employment; adjustment methods for coping with the short and medium term problems related to the globalisation of employment; and the importance of international instruments to help ensure a level playing field in trade and promote development, drawing on established rights and international labour standards.
Download or read book Social Protection Floors for Social Justice and a Fair Globalization written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fair Trade written by Laura T. Raynolds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world’s most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and environmental sustainability through market based social change. Fair Trade links food consumers and agricultural producers across the Global North/ South divide and lies at the heart of key efforts to reshape the global economy. This book reveals the challenges the movement faces in its effort to transform globalization, emphasizing the inherent tensions in working both in, and against, the market. It explores Fair Trade’s recent rapid growth into new production regions, market arenas, and commodity areas through case studies of Europe, North America, Africa, and Latin America undertaken by prominent scholars in each region. The authors draw on, and advance, global commodity and value chain analysis, convention, and social movement approaches through these case studies and a series of synthetic analytical chapters. Pressures for more radical and more moderate approaches intertwine with the movement’s historical vision, reshaping Fair Trade’s priorities and efforts in the Global North and South. Fair Trade will be of strong interest to students and scholars of politics, globalization, sociology, geography, economics and business.
Download or read book Fairness in Practice written by Aaron James and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author argues that to achieve a fair global economy, there must be compensation of people harmed by their exposure to the global economy, but also equal division of the "gains of trade" across societies.
Download or read book Social Protection Floors for Social Justice and a Fair Globalization written by International Labour Office and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Offshoring and the Internationalization of Employment written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Globalization and Its Discontents written by Joseph E. Stiglitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade, including stints as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist at the World Bank. Particularly concerned with the plight of the developing nations, he became increasingly disillusioned as he saw the International Monetary Fund and other major institutions put the interests of Wall Street and the financial community ahead of the poorer nations. Those seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of protesters in Seattle and Genoa will find the reasons here. While this book includes no simple formula on how to make globalization work, Stiglitz provides a reform agenda that will provoke debate for years to come. Rarely do we get such an insider's analysis of the major institutions of globalization as in this penetrating book. With a new foreword for this paperback edition.
Download or read book A Fair Globalization Which Also Creates Opportunities For Women in the South written by Katharina Fischer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Globalisierung, pol. Ökonomie, Note: 1,3, Universität Kassel (FB 05- Politikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: HS: politische, soziale und ökonomische Aspekte d. Globalisierung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Befürworter der Globalisierung argumentieren, dass die weltumspannende kapitalistische Ökonomie den Völkern Wohlstand beschert. Das Gegenteil ist aber der Fall. Die Globalisierung bringt neue Ausbeutungsverhältnisse und Ungleichheiten besonders für Frauen aus Peripheriestaaten hervor. Doch was ist eigentlich Ungleichheit und vor allem: Wie lässt sie sich messen? Für den Soziologen Jan Nederveen Pieterse impliziert der Terminus „globale Ungleichheit“ einen weltweiten Horizont und setzt die „Gleichheit der Menschen“ als Norm (Pieterse 2002, 1024). Dabei entlarvt er allgemeine Annahmen, dass z.B. Ungleichheit in armen Ländern weiter verbreitet sei, als im Westen, als Märchen. Industriestaaten, wie die USA oder Großbritannien, gemessen am Einkommen, haben die größte Ungleichheit zu verzeichnen (vgl. Pieterse 2002, 1025). Doch gibt es auch ungleiche Entwicklungen und Chancen für Männer und Frauen sowohl im „Westen“, wie auch in „Entwicklungsländern“. Diese misst der Gender Development Index (GDI), anhand Daten für Lebenserwartung, Bildungschancen und Einkommen, die geschlechtsspezifisch aufgeschlüsselt werden (Schlussbericht der Enquete Kommission 2002, 310). Es lässt sich so feststellen, dass „[...] in keiner Gesellschaft der Welt [...] Frauen die gleichen Chancen auf ein „gutes Leben“ wie Männer [haben]“ (ebenda, 310). Tatsache bleibt auch, dass Frauen in vielen Ländern der Peripherie trotz, oder wegen der Globalisierung benachteiligt werden, und noch mehr: Diese Entwicklung bringt Gewinnerinnen und Verliererinnen hervor. So scheinen in den letzten zwanzig Jahren sowohl in Südamerika und Asien immer mehr Frauen erwerbstätig geworden zu sein, jedoch meist im informellen Wirtschaftssektor, d.h. oft unterbezahlt und ohne jeglichen Kündigungsschutz. Für höher qualifizierte weibliche Erwerbstätige aus westlichen Industrieländern haben sich neue Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten ergeben, während Arbeitsmigrantinnen aus Südländern u.a. als Hauspersonal im Niedriglohnsektor für eben diese Frauen arbeiten (vgl. Young und Hoppe 2004, 486).[...] [...] Im folgenden Essay werden daher zunächst Probleme der Auswirkungen der ökonomischen und sozialen Umbrüche der letzten Jahre auf Frauen anhand zweier Beispiele (Südamerika und Südkorea) dargestellt. Anschließend wird ein Blick in die Zukunft geworfen und Lösungsansätze vorgestellt. [...] [...]
Download or read book Social Protection Floors for Social Justice and a Fair Globalization written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report was prepared on the basis of the replies received from governments and organizations of employers and workers to the questionnaire (to ascertain the views of member States on the scope and content of a possible Recommendation, and to prepare the proposed text) and contains the substance of their observations together with the Office's commentary on the replies and on the proposed text of the Recommendation.
Download or read book Why Globalization Works written by Martin Wolf and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-10 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful case for the global market economy The debate on globalization has reached a level of intensity that inhibits comprehension and obscures the issues. In this book a highly distinguished international economist scrupulously explains how globalization works as a concept and how it operates in reality. Martin Wolf confronts the charges against globalization, delivers a devastating critique of each, and offers a realistic scenario for economic internationalism in the future. Wolf begins by outlining the history of the global economy in the twentieth century and explaining the mechanics of world trade. He dissects the agenda of globalization’s critics, and rebuts the arguments that it undermines sovereignty, weakens democracy, intensifies inequality, privileges the multinational corporation, and devastates the environment. The author persuasively defends the principles of international economic integration, arguing that the biggest obstacle to global economic progress has been the failure not of the market but of politics and government, in rich countries as well as poor. He examines the threat that terrorism poses and maps the way to a global market economy that can work for everyone.
Download or read book In Defense of Globalization written by Jagdish Bhagwati and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization. Now Jagdish Bhagwati, the internationally renowned economist, takes on the critics, revealing that globalization, when properly governed, is in fact the most powerful force for social good in the world today. Drawing on his unparalleled knowledge of international and development economics, Bhagwati explains why the "gotcha" examples of the critics are often not as compelling as they seem. With the wit and wisdom for which he is renowned, Bhagwati convincingly shows that globalization is part of the solution, not part of the problem. This edition features a new afterword by the author, in which he counters recent writings by prominent journalist Thomas Friedman and the Nobel Laureate economist Paul Samuelson and argues that current anxieties about the economic implications of globalization are just as unfounded as were the concerns about its social effects.
Download or read book Advancing Social Justice written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decent Work and Fair Globalization a Guide to Policy Dialogue written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fair Trade and Social Justice written by Sarah Lyon and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroic Desire performs its title--bold, challenging, seductive, and compelling--a vital and exciting addition to the discourse on lesbian identities, their dissolves and perpetual becomings. Sure to incite and inspire." —Lynda Hart, Author of Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression "Right on the edge of exciting and daring new writing on lesbian representation. Moving beyond post- modernism's rejection of identity politics, Munt draws on a wealth of scholarship and personal reflection to refigure the heroic narrative in the service of lesbian liberation strategies. A thoughtful and thought- provoking book." —Esther Newton , State University of New York, Purchase "In Heroic Desire Sally Munt revisits identity politics through the figure of the lesbian hero. The result is one of the most exciting works of lesbian theory to appear in years. Written in a strong and engaging personal voice, Heroic Desire will excite, provoke, enlighten, and entertain the reader with this original insights into questions of lesbian identity, culture, and community." —Bonnie Zimmerman, San Diego State University
