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NEOLIBERALISM/FREE MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM ON A GLOBAL SCALE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WORKING CLASS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

•          Femi Aborisade •          Department of Business Administration and Management Studies •          The Polytechnic, Ibadan •          aborisadefemi@gmail.com   •        Outline •                    Introduction •                    Theories of Classical Liberalism •                    1. Natural rights theory •                    2. Utilitarianism •         ...

HOW THE WORLD’S WORKING CLASS CAN CONFRONT CURRENT CHALLENGES POSED BY THE WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS

HOW THE WORLD’S WORKING CLASS CAN CONFRONT CURRENT CHALLENGES POSED BY THE WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS [1] By Femi Aborisade aborisadefemi@gmail.com   Appreciation and Introduction I wish to express profound gratitude to your Association for deeming me fit and proper to be invited to deliver a paper on how to confront the current challenges facing the world’s working class. I derive personal satisfaction, fulfilment and meaning from life only when I engage in reflections on the emancipatory struggles of the working class, not only within the national frontier but also on a world’s scale, without borders. Broad Outline of Paper This paper is structured as follows: 1.     Description and current state of the global economic crisis 2.     Identification of the challenges posed by the global economic crisis 3.     How to confront the challenges DESCRIPTION AND CURRENT STATE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS I...