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Different Forms and Impacts of Different Forms and Impacts of GlobalisationGlobalisation

What is globalisation?What is globalisation?Different levels of globalisationDifferent levels of globalisation

Players’ strategiesPlayers’ strategies

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DefinitionDefinition

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

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The term "globalisation" refers to a process by which financial capitalism tends to impose its interests on every society on the planet and to all sectors of society (labour, consumption, culture, public management, etc.)

It is a process that extends to the entire planet a mode of production, a political ideology (neo-liberalism) and a dominant culture (that of the USA and secondarily that of Western Europe): producing effects of polarisation and growing inequalities, rather than uniformisation. Abolishing borders and imposing the same rules on everyone leads to greater inequalities between the dominant and the dominated

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Globalisation is intentional and organised by a consortium of actors, financial and industrial, political and military; these actors are many and dissimilar, but are linked by common interests and far-reaching lobbies. These actors put forward identifiable choices and give rise to resistance by other actors

The process is not entirely new: globalisation is a stage in the development of 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

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Мain aspects of globalisation

Internationalisation of tradeInternationalisation of trade

Internationalisation of productionInternationalisation of production

Internationalisation of capitalInternationalisation of capital

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Main players

Multinational companies – Direct foreign InvestmentMultinational companies – Direct foreign Investment

International finance organisations and WTO International finance organisations and WTO

European UnionEuropean Union

www.etui-rehs.org/education/Resources/Europe-and-Globalisationwww.etui-rehs.org/education/Resources/Europe-and-Globalisation

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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 globalisationThe triumph of globalisation

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Unequal globalisation

Globalisation is not globalGlobalisation is not globalImpact on Impact on regionalregional level levelImpact on Impact on nationalnational level level

Impact on Impact on locallocal level level(country, town, community)(country, town, community)

Impact on Impact on Trade unionsTrade unions

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Mains concerns/issuesMains concerns/issues

How the trade unions in different countries see the globalisation?How the trade unions in different countries see the globalisation?

How does globalisation influence the realities of workers on a How does globalisation influence the realities of workers on a national level?national level?

How does globalisation influence the organisation and actionHow does globalisation influence the organisation and actionof trade unions?of trade unions?

What are the instruments for effective regulation?What are the instruments for effective regulation?

What trade unions strategy to develop at What trade unions strategy to develop at NationalNationalRegional Regional

European and European and international level?international level?