La Oposición contra Trabajadores de Plataformas Estadounidenses y Un Camino para Avanzar
Opposition to US Platform Workers’ Rights and A Way Forward Author: Ekeoma Ugo Ezeh Translated into Spanish by the author Over the past decade, work based on digital platforms has become increasingly popular around the world. Particularly in the United States, passenger transport and food and grocery delivery apps such as Uber, Lyft, Doordash, and […]
Structural Violence and the International Political Economy
In the contemporary world, the phenomenon we call globalization has brought to life ideas and predictions previously thought impossible. There has been a global diffusion of information technologies and communications, such as the internet, cell phones and satellite television; the facility of international travel; the increased accessibility of consumer goods and services; and the sharing of unique cultures and customs. While on the surface these realizations seem undoubtedly advantageous, they are not without their own serious downsides. Most notable is the fact that as globalization gained influence in the world, largely throughout the 1990s, the actual number of people living in poverty had increased by almost 100 million(1). To make sense of this dark irony, this increasing polarization between haves and have-nots, we must examine the underlying causes and systems driving the distribution of wealth and debt in the twenty-first century. Broadly, such a system might be referred to as the international political economy