"Workers, Unions and the Left: Responding to the Global Crisis" lecture by Dr. Rohini Hensman at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 23rd January 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on 'Workers, Unions and the Left: Responding to the Global Crisis' by Dr. Rohini Hensman, Author and Independent Scholar.
Abstract : The decades since the mid-1970s saw a worldwide assault on trade unions and workers’ rights, as a consequence of which real wages stagnated or in some cases actually fell, while income disparities increased massively. This created the context for the economic crisis that swept through the world in 2008, and is far from being resolved even today. The predominant response to the crisis by most governments is to bail out the banks and impose austerity measures on wage earners, resulting in growing unemployment, downward pressure on wages, and the dismantling of social security and welfare benefits. Yet if the shrinking of aggregate demand and the disproportionate growth of ‘fictitious capital’ (as Marx termed most of the capital held in banks) led to the crisis in the first place, how can such a strategy possibly solve it? This paper argues that while capitalism will always be prone to crises, only by strengthening workers’ rights, expanding employment, and raising the income of working people living in poverty can the world economy emerge from this particular crisis.
Speaker : Dr. Rohini Hensman is an independent scholar, writer and activist who comes from Sri Lanka and lives in India. She has worked on trade union issues, women’s rights, globalisation, the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, and the ethnic conflict and civil war in Sri Lanka, and has written numerous articles and book chapters on these issues. She is the co-author of My Life is One Long Struggle: Women, Work, Organisation and Struggle and Beyond Multinationalism: Management Policy and Bargaining Relationships in International Companies, and the author of Journey Without a Destination: Is there a solution for Sri Lankan refugees? Her publications include two novels: To Do Something Beautiful, inspired by working women in Bombay, and Playing Lions and Tigers, a political novel set in Sri Lanka.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library ( NMML ), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on 'Workers, Unions and the Left: Responding to the Global Crisis' by Dr. Rohini Hensman, Author and Independent Scholar.
Abstract : The decades since the mid-1970s saw a worldwide assault on trade unions and workers’ rights, as a consequence of which real wages stagnated or in some cases actually fell, while income disparities increased massively. This created the context for the economic crisis that swept through the world in 2008, and is far from being resolved even today. The predominant response to the crisis by most governments is to bail out the banks and impose austerity measures on wage earners, resulting in growing unemployment, downward pressure on wages, and the dismantling of social security and welfare benefits. Yet if the shrinking of aggregate demand and the disproportionate growth of ‘fictitious capital’ (as Marx termed most of the capital held in banks) led to the crisis in the first place, how can such a strategy possibly solve it? This paper argues that while capitalism will always be prone to crises, only by strengthening workers’ rights, expanding employment, and raising the income of working people living in poverty can the world economy emerge from this particular crisis.
Speaker : Dr. Rohini Hensman is an independent scholar, writer and activist who comes from Sri Lanka and lives in India. She has worked on trade union issues, women’s rights, globalisation, the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, and the ethnic conflict and civil war in Sri Lanka, and has written numerous articles and book chapters on these issues. She is the co-author of My Life is One Long Struggle: Women, Work, Organisation and Struggle and Beyond Multinationalism: Management Policy and Bargaining Relationships in International Companies, and the author of Journey Without a Destination: Is there a solution for Sri Lankan refugees? Her publications include two novels: To Do Something Beautiful, inspired by working women in Bombay, and Playing Lions and Tigers, a political novel set in Sri Lanka.
Related Events : Talks | Trade | Economy
"Workers, Unions and the Left: Responding to the Global Crisis" lecture by Dr. Rohini Hensman at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 23rd January 2012
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