Program on Globalization and the Workplace An estimated one
billion people in the world live on less than one U.S. dollar
per person per day and another 1.6 billion live on between one
and two U.S. dollars per person per day. Is globalization
helping or hurting these people? What is happening to the other
four billion of the world’s people? How can the forces of
globalization be redesigned to provide improved earning
opportunities for the poor? Although the process of
globalization is affecting working people everywhere, no
university has a major program on globalization and the world of
work. Accordingly, we have established a Program on
Globalization and the Workplace at the world's leading academic
institution for the workplace, the ILR School at Cornell
University. While private sector employers do not necessarily
need the workers of any given developing country, the workers in
each poor country desperately need the private sector. Thus,
consistent with the ILR School’s historic mission, we are
seeking wi