Labour Market Forum 2010 - Planning Institute of Jamaica

to break with the system. It is equally an argument about the
futility of workers fighting even for the most minimal of reforms
within the existing system
whether welfare reforms or
improvements in wages or working conditions from the
employer. Any attempt by workers to impose their demands
on capital will simply lead to it ignoring them and, if necessary,
decamping elsewhere in the system.
This was the effects of globalization prior to the world recession.
At its essence it proves to be both the cause and the
consequence of unfettered market excesses that prize, not
opportunity, but opportunism and risk equality and social
welfarism.
How therefore we approach the recovery from the global
economic fall-out to create the jobs which will lead to
sustainable growth becomes the crucial question. I want to
approach it by examining three critical issues which I believe
would be useful in guiding our considerations.
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