Work

Globalization is often seen as offering capital a means of escape from negotiating with organized labour. Mobility of capital and application of new technologies to production have redrawn the balance of power between capital and labour. Capital's power has been enhanced enormously. Massn unemployment, growing insecurity and increased inequality have weakened labour's position. The state at the national level, from which labour might hope to gain a modicum of protection from market forces, is seen as losing power and capacity. Without idealizing the...