Christian Zeller, Salzburg: Globalisierung der Arbeit und der Verunsicherung

Globalization of labor and uncertainty

The globalization of capital not only strengthened global integration but also sharpened social inequalities and uncertainties. The internationalization of investment and financial placement capital increased global competition between workers for wages and labor conditions. Thus, an expansion of flexible and unstable employment conditions as well as an erosion of labor conditions and wages occurred worldwide. Moreover social security and labor rights are threatened. The challenge concerns not only net wages but “indirect wages” and, respectively, “ancillary labor costs”. Increasingly, workers are instrumentalized to put pressure on their less fortunately positioned colleagues in other places around the world. As a result, the concept of an “industrial reserve army” has attained a new and intensified reality on a global scale. Those who stand up for more sustainable social development face new challenges. Both the analytical concepts and the political prescriptions require a fundamental renewal.

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