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globalisation

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Noun1.globalisationglobalisation - growth to a global or worldwide scale; "the globalization of the communication industry"
economic process - any process affecting the production and development and management of material wealth


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Factories, in particular, were vacated because globalisation moved manufacturing to lower cost workforces in the developing world.
While the primary focus of the book has been to explore the kind of impact globalization is having on health policy-making, the contributors speaking in unison express a vital humanitarian concern that the current forces driving globalisation are primarily failing to taking into account its implications for promoting and protecting human health.
Formed in 1949, the ICFTU has 234 affiliated organisations in 152 countries, representing 148 million workers who were ready to show 'unions aren't going to sit back and watch corporate globalisation simply drive economic profits .
 
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