SY103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: World Social Forum, Neocolonialism, Dependency Theory
Document Summary
Dependence of least industrialized nations on most industrialized nations poverty has increased and quality of life for millions of people has deteriorated. The market, not military, as tool for controlling least industrialized nations. Companies that operate across many national boundaries. Other protests target international organizations like the world bank, the imf, and the wto. Uses the internet to bring together social movements, organizations, ngos and individuals to consider alternatives to globalization - opposes: neoliberal globalization, all forms of imperialism. The international labour organization (ilo) established conventions regarding child labour, but they are not necessarily enforced. 2000: roughly 15 000 children worked in forced labour picking cocoa beans in ghana and ivory coast. Young girls are often trafficked into the sex trade. 7 (or 4. 9 million) people in canada live in poverty. In edmonton, 1 in 8 individuals are currently living in poverty. Poverty costs canada as a whole between billion and billion annually; ontarians pay.
