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This chapter attempts to examine how global restructuring has impacted labour markets in the North and the South. The point of departure is that although the discourse on globalization has enshrined workfare as a new socio-economic objective for capitalist societies, the results of this strategy have left much to be desired. In fact, globalization has had a huge impact on the increase of unemployment and the de-regulation of labour markets, which is interpreted as a move towards varieties of flexibility with a concomitant removal of worker protection, lowering of social protection and weakening of labour unions. Sociologically speaking this implies a loss of social cohesion and individualization of human security and a collapse of stable social structures and traditional institutions in both North and South.
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Schmidt, J.D. (2006). Flexicurity, Casualization and Informalization of Global Labour Markets. In: Ghosh, B.N., Guven, H.M. (eds) Globalization and the Third World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502567_8
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