Globalisation and Employment (BMAN20262)
Lecture 1: Introduction to Globalization
Lecture 2: Does the nation state still matter?
Lecture 3: Global production networks
Lecture 4: Global production in low-cost manufacturing and retail
Lecture 6: Labour migration
Lecture 8: Who wins ans loses from Globalization
Seminar week 10: Assessing the impact of Walmart
Lecture 2: Does the nation state still matter?
- 10 contributions on the role of the state after the financial crisis (Guardian, 9-14 December 2008)
Lecture 3: Global production networks
- Global Value Chains Initiative: An project to test and develop the GVC framework by developing an industry-centric view of economic globalization that highlights the linkages between economic actors across geographic space.
Lecture 4: Global production in low-cost manufacturing and retail
- Made in little Wenzhou, Italy: the latest label from Tuscany (Guardian, 18/11/2010)
- Werner International: Management consultants to the world textile, apparel & fashion industry
- Nike corporate responsibility, including information on Workers and Factories and Corporate Responsibility Report (FY 07 - 09)
- Gap social responsibility, including social responsibility report
- Campaign and civic groups that target the garment industry: Clean Clothes Campaign (Europe); the Workers Right Consortium as organised by the United Students Against Sweatshops (US/Canada); The National Labor Committee (in Support of Human and Worker Rights).
- 'In principle, a case for more "sweatshops"' (The New York Times, 22/06/1997)
- Apple factories accused of exploiting Chinese workers (Guardian, 30/04/2011)
- In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad (The New York Times, 25/01/2012)
- Apple the target of playwright's ire over Chinese worker abuse (Guardian, 04/02/2012)
- Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory: Radio-adaptation of Mike Daisy's one-man show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs"
- This American Life withdraws damning Apple episode (Guardian, 16/03/2012)
- 'The truth is vitally important' (Guardian, 18/03/2012): response by Mike Daisey after This American Life withdrew 'his' show
- How much 'forced labor' fuels your lifestyle? A little test to calculate how much slave labour you uses (CNN Money, 22/09/2011)
- Apple faces its 'Nike moment' over working conditions in Chinese factories (Guardian, 21/02/2012)
- How activism forced Nike to change its ethical game (including comments) (Guardian, 06/07/2012)
Lecture 6: Labour migration
- Non-EU immigration linked to unemployment, says report (Guardian, 10/01/2012)
Lecture 8: Who wins ans loses from Globalization
- Rising inequality and poverty /// Record inequality between rich and poor: Two brief OECD videos on inequality
- Reference to the debate on income inequality by The UC Atlas of Global Inequality
Seminar week 10: Assessing the impact of Walmart
- Websites on and by Wal-Mart: Wal-Mart Watch, WakeUp Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart Facts / Wal-Mart's Press Room.