SOCL 1260 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: International Finance Corporation, Labour Market Flexibility, Corporatization

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Making workers insecure, easier to exploit, and to weaken or destroy workers" unions: privatization of nature as it is degraded into commodities. This is the process of barbaric dispossession on a scale that has no parallel in history. Therefore, since the 1980s the world international finance corporation has been promoting water privatization as part of a broader set of policies designed to unleash the market mechanism" with regard to natural sources. Such policies have come on top of other environmental problems caused by a rapacious and increasingly free market" capitalism, such as greenhouse gases, which will propel planetary warming: deregulation. Freedom of employers to maneuver workers: commodification, international agreements trade. Free trade agreements, to accelerate the centralization and concentration of capital through ceaseless mergers and acquisitions. Intersectionality: countries: u. s, canada, australia and european nations. Household care taker: female caregivers who are dependent upon the male breadwinner for benefits.