Monday, October 31, 2005
SOCIAL NETWORKING: India workers in bangalore reject unions
SOCIAL NETWORKING: India workers in bangalore reject unions
tcavallo's blog SOCIAL NETWORKING has a link to an article about the attempt to unionize call center workers in Bangalore. This is interesting because it is about the globalization of the union movement in response to the globalization of capital. If we truly live in a flat world for corporations who can pick up and move their operations anywhere in the global market, can the same be said about unions? It seems that IT workers in India are not flocking to join the union despite the often difficult labor conditions they work in. Why is this? What would happen if the unions were successful in Bangalore? Would the call centers just pick up and move to the next low wage country on the list? Is that what would happen if we lived in a truly "flat world"?
tcavallo's blog SOCIAL NETWORKING has a link to an article about the attempt to unionize call center workers in Bangalore. This is interesting because it is about the globalization of the union movement in response to the globalization of capital. If we truly live in a flat world for corporations who can pick up and move their operations anywhere in the global market, can the same be said about unions? It seems that IT workers in India are not flocking to join the union despite the often difficult labor conditions they work in. Why is this? What would happen if the unions were successful in Bangalore? Would the call centers just pick up and move to the next low wage country on the list? Is that what would happen if we lived in a truly "flat world"?
