Episode 3: Logistics of globalisation - is this the world we want?

EU Watchdog Radio

Corporate Europe Observatory and Counter Balance

News, Politics

5 • 1 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In the third episode of EU Watchdog Radio Nicholas Hildyard, UK based researcher and activist of the NGO, The Corner House, gives some fascinating insights in the world of logistics. A world that we all benefit from, but know very little about. Hildyard, who just published a new report with Counter Balance, states that we are all being 'logisticized' without even realizing it. The relatively new economic sector called 'logistics management' is now one of the biggest employers globally, s...

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0:00.0	You're listening.
0:16.9	You're listening to EU. You're listening to EU Watchdog Radio.
0:26.9	Welcome to this third episode of this podcast series called EU Watchdog Radio.
0:32.9	It's hosted by two Brussels-based NGOs called Corporate Europe Observatory and Counterbalance.
0:39.3	Both NGOs tried to raise awareness on the importance of good governance in the European Union,
0:45.3	by researching issues like lobbying of large and powerful industries, corporate capture of decision-making,
0:51.3	corruption, fraud, human rights violations in areas like agro-business
0:57.1	and chemical companies, the financial sector and public investment banks, trade, energy and climate,
1:03.1	and much, much more. I'm Hans van Schagen, media officer at CEO. And in this episode,
1:10.1	I meet with a very interesting English researcher
1:12.3	called Nicholas Hilliard from Kona House. We meet in a tiny theatre La Couchte Shell in
1:18.3	Lijes in the south of Belgium. Why we meet here will become clear shortly. Nick has just
1:24.5	published a report under the umbrella of counterbalance with the title
1:28.7	Corridors as Factories, Supply Chains, Logistics and Labor.
1:34.7	Is this the world you want?
1:37.3	It's a fascinating and scary read about globalization.
1:41.0	It's about the link between Ali Baba and the hidden ghost workers of globalization and the fact that basically we are all being logisticized.
1:49.0	This is a story about you and me.
1:52.0	The interview with Nicholas Hilliard took place early March, just before most of us started realizing the magnitude of the corona crisis,
2:01.5	and well before governments started taking unprecedented measures
2:05.3	to stop the virus from spreading even more.
2:08.8	At the end of this podcast, you'll hear Nick's views on how all this will affect the world of logistics and globalization.
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