Labor, inequality, and globalization : Legal and theological perspectives on vulnerable migrant workers

As a social phenomenon, globalization has primarily been associated with the flexibility and movement of the forms of production; the rapid mobility of capital, information, and goods; the denationalizing of capital; the deterritorialization of culture; the interpenetration of local communities by global media networks; and the dispersal of socioeconomic power. While “globalization” as a term emerged fairly recently, when the world economy rapidly evolved new forms of integration and interdependence, the structures of globalization are not new. Whenever these structures of globalization have appeared throughout history, they have almost always resulted from, or resulted in, the wide-scale movement of people. Indeed, one could argue that globalization’s strongest and most dramatic stimuli and effects are most deeply illustrated by the ability of a massive number of people to move from place to place at an increasingly faster pace.

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