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International Labour Organization (ILo)
Social Dialogue
Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV)
Press Release 16 September 2010
Labour and the Global Crisis: Sharing the Burden(!)Shaping the Future(?)
http://www.ilo.org/actrav/info/pr/lang--en/WCMS_144792/index.htm
BERLIN-The Global Labour University held its annual Conference from 15 to 16 September in Berlin on the theme: Labour and the Global Crisis: Sharing the Burden(!) Shaping the Future (?).The two-day Conference was opened by the President of the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB), Mr. Michael Sommer.
This year, the Conference gathered trade unionists and researchers from over 50 countries to discuss analyses of the crisis, identify short-term stabilisation and long-term solutions, and debate how to meet the challenge to re-regulate the global economy in order to increase the control of democratic government over global capital.
Global Labour University Conference, 14-16 September 2010, Berlin, Germany
http://www.global-labour-university.org/233.html
PAPERS PRESENTED & DISCUSSED are found below
http://www.global-labour-university.org/238.html
click on the title of the paper for download
| No. & Title of Paper | Presenters |
| 5. Restarting History: Why the global labour movement must challenge the ‘corporate theory of society’, and how it might go about doing it. | Conor Cradden |
| 8. Non-standard employment relations or the erosion of workers’ rights | Jan Cremers |
| 10. Wild Capitalism in Post Communist Transformation: the Case of Serbia | Martin Upchurch |
| 15. Consciousness, Capacities and Visions of Alternatives to the Capitalist Logic | Melisa R. Serrano, Edlira Xhafa |
| 16. Finance-dominated capitalism in crisis -- the case for a Global Keynesian New Deal | Eckhard Hein, Achim Truger |
| 17. Economic change and labour’s decline: an empirical qualification concerning their association | Bill Dunn |
| 18. Determinants of functional income distribution in OECD countries | Engelbert Stockhammer |
| 20. Fiscal Crisis in Europe or a Crisis of Distribution? | Özlem Onaran |
| 21. Impact of Global Economic Recession on the Livelihood of Diamond Workers: a case study of Gujarat, India | Sarbeswara Sahoo |
| 22. Women in Northeastern Brazilian Labor Market in the 2000s: Growth, Post-Crisis Scenarios and Gendered Job Precariousness | Andre Luiz Martins |
| 23. Changes in the World of Work: New Information and Communication Technologies, Pension Funds and Shareholder Activism | Paulo Sérgio Fracalanza |
| 25. The Global Crisis and its ‘Resilient Response’ in India: Furthering the Neoliberal Labour Reform Agenda? | Saumyajit Bhattacharya |
| 26. The Double Burden on Maquila Workers: Violence and Crisis in Northern Mexico | Hepzibah Munoz Martinez |
| 27. Labour and the Locusts: Trade Union responses to corporate governance regulation in the European Union | Laura Horn |
| 30. A rowing boat on the open sea, or in a haven from financial and environmental crises? New Zealand, the GFC, and a union response | Bill Rosenberg |
| 35. 'Decent Work Deficit’ of self-employed workers in the urban informal sector: Evidence from street vending in Mumbai | Debdulal Saha |
| 36. How do institutions affect the labour market adjustment to the economic crisis in different EU countries? | Andrew Watt |
| 37. Impact of transnational company agreements on social dialogue and industrial relations - ABSTRACT | Isabelle Schömann |
| 39. Hard Hit by the Crisis? Women Workers in Export Oriented Garments and Organized Retail Trade - ABSTRACT | Neetha Pillai |
| 44. Employment situation in Mumbai: An analysis | D. P. Singh |
| 45. Economic Growth, Employment and Labour Market Regulation in Brazil | Paulo Baltar, José Dari Krein, Eugenia Troncoso Leone |
| 46. Meeting the Right’s Attack on Public Sector Unions in the US......Are there Effective Strategies? | Lee H. Adler |
| 49. Turkish Unions in the face of the Crisis of Capitalism | Yasemin Ozgun, Ozgur Muftuoglu |
| 51. Globalisation, Liberalisation and Agrarian Distress. A Study of Suicides among Farmers in India | Gaurang R. Sahay |
| 52. How Secure is National Rural Employement Guarantee as a Safety Net | Pragya Khanna |
| 59. The past, present and future of public spending | David Hall |
| 60. Labour market deregulation and climate change | David Bensman |
| 65. An Economic Analysis of Unemployment in Brazil | Marcelo Weishaupt Proni |
| 67. Creating a Functional State - Redefining Labour-Capital relationship in Nepal | Chandra D. Bhatta |
| 70. Addressing Competition: Strategies for Organizing Precarious Workers - Cases from Canada | Maya Bhullar |
| 85. Investment and Labour in the global crisis: Faceless capital and the challenges to trade unions in Brazil | Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi |
| 89. The eco-logic of the global capitalist crisis | Devan Pillay |
| 94. The (so-called) crisis of the Euro | Trevor Evans |
| 95. An opportunity not taken…yet: U.S. labor and the current economic crisis | Chris Tilly |
| 96. Collective Actions Push Trade Union Reform in China | Lin Yanling |
| 97. Development, Globalization and Decent Work: An Emerging Labour Paradigm | Edward Webster |
| 98. Reform options of Financial Systems | Hansjörg Herr |
| 99. Minimum wages under the conditions of the global economic crisis | Thorsten Schulten |
| 100. Response of the US Labor Movement to the Economic Crisis | Jason Russel |
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