Nearly after 150 years of Marx´s reading, labour and its organizations are facing the enormous challenge of simultaneously responding to the current globalization regime marked by growing social inequality, continuing environmental degradation, global capital mobility, supply chains of transnational companies crossing national borders, persistent high levels of informal employment in most of the late industrialized countries, and growing precariousness in industrialized regions of the world and tendencies of rapid digitalization of work with still unknown consequences on employment issues.
Dr. Manfred Wannöffel, Executive Director of the Ruhr University Bochum/Industriegewerkschaft Metall Joint Working Group.
