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Ram's Head Upper Deck
Friday, October 9 at 8:30am
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The effects of globalization on markets and workers have been widely examined in the legal literature. However, the impact of globalization within households and upon families, and the response of the state, have not received adequate attention. This symposium will focus on issues related to globalization and families.... Attention will be given principally to the United States, informed by an awareness of global interdependencies, and set within a larger comparative international framework as a means to examine the range of possible legal responses to these issues.
The globalization of the economy has placed unrelenting pressures on contemporary families. Throughout the industrialized world, marriage rates are declining, birth rates are falling, and hours that family members work outside the home are rising.
Globalization demands longer hours in the workplace, and inevitably results in competing and conflicting demands on time allocated to interpersonal relationships within households. Workplace demands strain the labor resources of families, taxing the ability of heads of households to care for young children and aging parents. Further, the stability in which families flourish is undermined by the flexibility that globalization requires, and the increasing entrepreneurialism demanded of workers.
Globalizations’ effects include the loss of state-sponsored social and regulatory programs, increased privatization of family carework, the marketization of the very creation of family, and changing social and economic relationships within families and communities. Government policies that promote the demands of the marketplace can exacerbate this tension between families and marketplace. In this symposium, we will examine the consequences of globalization on families and consider the effectiveness of different possible government responses to the difficulties that globalization poses for families.
Globalization, Families and the State
Time:8:30AM Friday, October 9th
Location:Ram's Head Upper Deck
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