Explanatory reporting: The New York Times staff for its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers.
Hobsbawm, who was recently appointed visiting professor in networking at Cass Business School, at City University, London, says in an increasingly global workforce, workers cannot afford to ignore the competitive edge it can give.
Adding 2 billion low skill and low wage workers to the global workforce is indeed going to put downward pressure on wages for low skilled workers in the rich countries.
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But, while global shiftworking brings benefits to workers and customers, it also brings new kinds of problem for the companies that embrace it.
The innovation rapidly disrupted a complex international supply chain that employed thousands of some of the most educated and highly-skilled workers in the global economy.
The key to prosperity in a global economy is having evermore productive workers.
Barack Obama began his career fighting for workers displaced by the global economy.
The more open the economy is to capital flows, and the smaller it is as a portion of the global economy, the more the workers will be paying it.
That would reduce the American corporate tax rate to nearly 20% on average, counting state rates, sufficient to restore the global competitiveness of the American businesses workers are counting on for jobs and higher wages.
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They have damaged public school performance and student prospects in a time of heated global competition for smart industries and educated workers.
They have driven our states and municipalities to the edge of bankruptcy and have damaged public school performance and student prospects in a time of heated global competition for smart industries and educated workers.
Prime Minister Lionel Jospin recently clashed with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair at the EU's Lisbon summit over the need to protect existing national firms and workers from the ravages of global capitalism.
The integration of China and other emerging economies into the world trading system has, in effect, more than doubled the global labour force, and by curbing workers' bargaining power it has restrained pay demands in most developed economies in recent years.
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And these diverse workers are often part of a global supply chain that keeps going 24 hours a day.
The global economic downturn kept wages down and increased workers' grievances.
Robust global growth is good news for firms and workers, but a danger for investors who have been betting on perpetually low inflation and low interest rates.
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Global free trade agreements made the number of workers available to fill jobs much greater than the number of jobs available and wages stagnated or declined and unemployement grew.
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After 40 months with unemployment above 8%, and with U.S. workers continuing to lose ground to global competitors, can America really afford to have its students rank 25th among industrialized nations in math and sciences?
And today, I renew my call to Congress to give me the authority to negotiate new trade agreements that will create opportunities for our workers and our businesses in the global economy and will maintain our leadership in creating the kind of world we want the young people who are here in this audience to live in.
"I think he needs to add a zero to it, " Lynn Sarko , a lawyer representing Global Crossing (otc: GBLXQ - news - people ) workers, told Reuters, adding that the amount was less than one-tenth of the losses Global Crossing employees had suffered.
Capsulizing the new mood, the website of the Global Times newspaper on Wednesday displayed a photo of workers at a power supply company in eastern Anhui province writing "cut down waste" slogans on balloons.
These trade agreements, along with bipartisan agreement on the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, represent a balanced approach to trade that not only opens up new opportunities for U.S. businesses but also provides support for American workers whose jobs have been affected by global competition.
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American workers and businesses are the athletes in a global competition that we must win.
The two former construction workers from Chicago were suddenly stars of the global movie industry.
Still, IBM struggles to secure visas for all the workers it requires, said Nicole Hedrick, global immigration chief.
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Almost all of his firm's 320 employees work out of the company's four global offices, which are equipped with videoconferencing technology allowing workers in different offices to simulate face-to-face contact.
As we've heard today, it can also create high quality jobs, and send a message to the world that at least some British workers have the skills to compete on a global stage.
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