Capstone: Social Justice and Workers' Rights in an Era of Globalization

Globalization has led to a great expansion of international trade in goods and services. The volume and velocity of international capital movements have also sharply increased in the past few decades leading to an increase in foreign direct investments, and the rise of multinational corporations. While economic globalization has resulted in the opening up of many new development opportunities it has also resulted in widening income inequalities. Migrant workers are especially vulnerable to violations of their human and labor rights because they are mostly poor, and insufficiently protected by the host country’s regulations. Singaporean workers are also displaced in the process and suffer as a result. In this talk, I will explore the impact of globalization on workers' rights in Singapore and what needs to be done for workers to reclaim our voice, our civil rights and our democratic future.