The Global Workplace-challenging the race to the bottom

Bibliographic Data

ID3887288
AuthorsJackie Simpkins (corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume14
Issue1-2
Pages110-118
Publication date2004-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0961452032000170677
OpenAlexW2036679084
LanguageEN
Citations received2

Founded in 1951, War on Want is a UK‐based NGO committed to the alleviation of poverty with strong roots in the labour movement. War on Want's programme on the Global Workplace provides trade unionists with a range of practical skills and knowledge about international development issues. Part of the programme involves a ‘Global Workers' Forum’, which takes grassroots trade union activists from the UK to a similar sector or even a plant owned by the same employer in the South. The aim is to enhance participants' understanding of the impact of globalisation on the industries in which they work, establish relationships that can act as starting points for global action, and encourage participants to spread the message within their own unions. There is also a website which raises awareness of the global economy and encourages activists to make links and undertake joint action. It is essential that now, as never before, trade unionists should work together as an international force to challenge globalisation and fight for the recognition of workers' rights. The Global Workplace suggests that showing global solidarity to workers around the world can help trade unionists rise to this challenge

Economic growth · Economics · Globalization · Grassroots · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Poverty · Public relations · Race to the bottom · Sociology · Solidarity · Trade union · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law

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