Globlisation, structural adjustmentand education
Item
- Title
- Globlisation, structural adjustmentand education
- Creator
- SADTU
- Date
- 1997
- Description
- Globalisation of finance: restructuring of capital such as global financial speculation, mergers + closures). Globalisation of production: restructuring of work (changing processes and location of production), restructuring of labour markets (structural unemployment, rise in part-time and casual workers and homeworkers). Globalisation of culture: dominance of 'American lifestyles'. Globalisation of the state (government): restructuring of the state (state following rather than compensating for 'free-market logic', restrictions on trade union freedoms and political rights, shifts away from national control over resources and policies to international structures such as WTO, IMF, World Bank).
- Format
- Language
- English
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178613
- Archive
- Cory Library for Humanitites Research
- Provenance
- The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
- Extent
- 9 pages
- Rights
- South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU)
- Rights Holder
- South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU)
- Use/re-use
- The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.
- Item sets
- General Materials
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