Our Labour Rights and the Assault of Corporate Power: Feminist Visions & Alternatives

DAWN has opened a new pedagogic space in the context of the global pandemic and as part of the programme of the upcoming World Social Forum of Transformative Economies. We invite you to a webinar about the current debates on the state of labour, powered by a feminist analysis of the main trends being imposed by global corporate dominance. We hear from Corina Rodríguez Enríquez, member of DAWN’s Executive Committee, Fernanda Hopenhaym, co-Executive Director of PODER and Nancy Kachingwe, Independent Advisor of South Feminist Futures. This webinar offers a broad view of the role of corporate power in global economic dynamics, its influence in the structuring of global economic governance and the definition of national public policy spaces. It focuses on the impacts of corporate power on working conditions around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified corporate impunity, the opacity of states and the weakening of labour social contracts. In this scenario marked by multiple intersecting financial, economic, sanitary, social and care crises, we invite you to debate the following questions: what is corporate capture? How can we tackle it from an economic, gender and environmental justice lens? How can we strengthen our collective work and influence public policies and spaces as we struggle to protect human rights, labour rights and democracies? Last, but not least, how can we walk together towards an alternative and transformative normality that has the sustainability of life at its centre?
Author(s): Corina Rodríguez Enríquez, Fernanda Hopenhaym, Nancy Kachingwe
Date Published: 2020

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