1. GLOBALIZATION:STAKES FOR EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNIONS
From «old» to «new Labor Economics»
Mario Murteira
(ISCTE, Lisbon)
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2. GLOBALIZATION AND TRADE UNIONS summary
Models of economic growth
Transitions to the global market
The «market friendly approach» and the new role of State
The impact of China in the global market
Old and new «Labor Economics»
Trade unions in the 21st Century
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3. THE NEW GROWTH MODEL PREDOMINANT ROLE OF SERVICES
KNOWLEDGE AS STRATEGIC INVESTMENT
KNOWLEDGE WORKERS
INNOVATION
AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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4. THE «OLD» GROWTH MODEL Accumulation of fixed capital Industrialization
Technical progress as « residual factor»
USSR paradigm: heavy industry, central and self reliant planning
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5. THE RECENT WAVE OF GLOBALIZATION
Transitions since the last quarter of the 20th Century
End of the Second and Third «Worlds»
Trends in Foreign Direct Investment
The new ICT
Globalization of capital and globalization of knowledge
What is «globalization», after all ?
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6. FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW LABOR ECONOMICS
Labour in developed capitalism in the «golden years» (1945/75)
Employment structure
Blue collar unionism
Full employment as major policy goal
«Welfare State»
Population growth
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7. From the manual worker to the «knowledge worker»
New employment structure
Flexibilization of the labor market
New demographic conditions
Crisis in retirement funding
«Elephants» and «fleas» (Handy)
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8. GLOBAL ECONOMICS AND KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMICS
OPORTUNITIES
New knowledge and innovation
Poverty reduction
Convergence in the world economy
«Human development»
Local, national and global citizenship
Globutopia scenario
THREATS
«Economy based knowledge»
Increasing exclusion and inequality
Employment «flexibility»
Globalization and de-regulation of capital flows
«Alfavela» scenario
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9. THE «MARKET FRIENDLY APPROACH»
A new approach to the economic role of the state
«Structural competitivity» in competition for Foreign Direct Investment
The Washington Consensus
The EU Lisbon Strategy and its reformulation
The European «social model» in question
EU facing globalization
The search for «another globalization»
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10. THE IMPACT OF CHINA AND THE CHANGING STRUCTURE OF THE GLOBAL MARKET
The «Open door» and the «One country two systems» strategies in China´s transition to the global market in the last 30 years
The fast growth of the Chinese economy and its implications for the growth of the world economy
Value and capital accumulation in the global market
The transnational managemnt of the value chain
The internal demand of the Chinese economy as great engine of world economic growth
The growing outflow of Chinese exports and FDI
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11. MORAL OF THE STORY Post-national or transnational capitalism
The great engine of world economic growth seems to be moving from West to East
TNC as global players
The labor market is increasingly global
«Globalization» is probably the major and determinant trend of our «age of transitions»
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12. TRADE UNIONS IN THE 21st CENTURY
Are trade unions obsolete?
Trade unions as transnational actors
The need for global agreements
The search for a social dimension of globalization
New models for social cohesion in Europe
EU as an interactive framework supporting trade unions
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