The impact of globalization on the world's working class

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We're All in the Same Global Boat: There's only one way to keep it from sinking; Bring up the bottom
By William Greider, 19 March 1998. Introduces his new book on the human consequences of globalization, One World, Readh or not. U.S. workers have a direct stake in the lives of workers overseas. The depressed wages in the U.S. and the mass unemployment in Europe, even the hollowing out of Japanese manufacturing, are all directly driven by the absence of labor rights in many developing countries.
Women Trade Unionists Put Globalisation in the Dock
By Mario Osava, IPS, 18 May 1999. The seventh conference of women trade unionists, which opened Tuesday in Brazil, put the process of globalisation in the dock. Women are the main victims of the unemployment, increasing precariousness of work and loss of rights spawned by globalisation.
Globalising the working class
By Jeremy Seabrook, Third World Network Features, August 1999. Globalisation has involved the creation of a global working class that is fragmented, involving a high proportion of women, covering a vast range of activities sub-contracted and sub-sub-contracted, whose only unity lies in that they are called into an existence by the integrating power of global privilege.
Globalisation Increases Pressure to Work More
By Mario Osava, IPS, 2 June 2000. According to the United Nations, globalization is widening the income gaps within and between countries and has driven the incorporation of more women into the labour market, the principal victims of the increased precariousness of employment arising from globalisation, with reductions in wages, jobs and labour rights, arising from the intense competition fed by open borders and the predominant role of the market—which demand cutting lab our costs.
End of the new workplace: smiling serfs of the new economy
By Ibrahim Warde, Le Monde diplomatique March 2002. Will the crash of Enron, following the dot.com debacle, end the abuse of the‘new economy’ employees in the United States, who surrendered their basic rights in the interests of company shareholders and even had to make voluntary‘contributions’ to their firms' political friends?
Why globalisation is bad news for millions of female workers
TUC Online, press release, 26 June 2003. The UK's TUC's Gender and Globalisation conference. Organised by the Trade Justice Movement. How globalisation and the drive towards the liberalisation of trade, is having an increasingly negative impact on the lives of millions of women workers around the globe.
Game Playing by ‘Free Trade’ Rules: Results from Indonesia and Dominican Republic
By Toni Solo, Counterpunch, 6/7 December 2003. What's true in Indonesia is also the case in Central America and the Caribbean. The apparel companies are ruthlessly consistent in their unscrupulous efforts to fix the outsourcing game in their favour. The origins of the game lie in the 1960s: intervention in support of military dictatorships.
Labour Pains: Hotbeds of 21st-Century Labour
By Vicki Robinson, Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg), 6 April 2004. South Africa can be an example of how labour will organise in the 21st century in other countries adjusting to globalisation. The scenes of labour unrest in South Africa during the 1980s are likely to be replicated in China, which is currently a leading recipient of capital.