The Global Economy and Human Wellbeing

The Global Economy and Human Wellbeing

Date: Saturday 5 September 2009 - Download flyer here (PDF 167.95Kb)
Presenter: Professor Rob Lambert

By the conclusion of this Intensive, you will have gained a deeper understanding of:

• what global free markets are doing to persons, families and societies;
• the nature of corporate restructuring of work, and its social and psychological impacts for families and communities;
• basic analytic techniques of ‘political economy’ necessary for understanding these changes;
• the values underlying these changes, and how they might be ethically assessed; and
• how to envisage (imagine) alternative models of work, and the process of realising such change.

About the presenter:

Winthrop Professor Rob Lambert is based at the University of Western Australia’s Business
School, where he specialises in labour studies. He is co-author of the award-winning book,
Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity (Oxford, Blackwell, 2008). Its highly readable
critique of the free market economy identifies destructive impacts for the environment, society,
families and persons. Rob is the founder and coordinator of the Southern Initiative on Globalization
and Trade Union Rights (SIGTUR), founded some 20 years ago. This movement brings together
democratic trade unions across 15 countries and four continents in the global south. Rob has a
background as a South African activist, and was National Secretary of the South African Young
Christian Workers and then advisor to the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference before
coming to Perth.