Abstract:

Two claims about the impact of globalisation have been made in India. One, made by the corporate lobby, is that globalisation requires the dilution of existing labour standards and, a forteriori, strong resistance to any strengthening of workers' rights, since these are an obstacle to competitiveness in the global economy as well as to attracting foreign investment. The other, made by mainstream Left parties and their trade unions, is that globalisation, through the agency of transnational corporations, the World Bank, IMF and WTO, is driving the dilution of labour standards and assault on workers' rights. Coming from seemingly opposite quarters, these claims converge on one common point: globalisation inevitably leads to an attack on workers' rights. This paper examines the evidence for and against these claims, and ends by looking at the ways in which workers have defended and could defend their rights in this context.

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Originally published in : http://www.iisg.nl/~clara/publicat/clara15.pdf

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