Global-labor, Risk or Opportunity?

As we live around "fast-flows" society, people interact, intersect, intermingle and intermix with each other. International policy portrays the world as a relationship within. Each member of this global village knows each other business just like their next-door neighbor. Each country has their own agenda to empower and develop the wealth of their inhabitant. The social nature of human as the inhabitant of country is to interact. The country as well needs interaction one another. The relationship between countries could be done through politic, economic, military, and educational type of interaction. Economic relationship between countries has been extensively increased due to the world financial condition. Every country tries out any opportunity to relate to international scheme in order to increase or maintain its welfare. Welfare affects people as a production factor. When one couldn’t taste welfare in their own area, he will seek out in the neighbor’s area. This phenomena lead to mobility of labor. Labor moves to other country to pursue better life on the other hand neglecting its own country welfare. The small quantity of labor mobility reduces the country welfare.

Basic Definition
Global labor is a term basically link back to its root of what is labor in general. Labor has been described long ago as the political economy professor from Trinity College, Connecticut defined the term as the application of power and device of man, to supply the wants and to gratify the desire of the race. Labor is a part of production factor in order to produce any kind of goods or services. It will grow from time ahead and in case other factors of production and distribution are organize in global perspective the global labor is in process. This global labor is valuable and specialty labor. They have the necessary skills and capabilities to work around the globe. They are varied from top level manager, political consultant, computer programmers, and biotechnologist to sports stars. We could categorize them into unskilled, semi-skilled and professional labor. All of them are mobilize themselves in the international labor market. The unskilled and semi-skilled usually land on the market through contracted scheme. The professional has higher bargaining position and academics and students fall to this category as well.

Global-Labor and Welfare
They are from their home country fly to different country to fill the demand of the labor market. Many developed countries are not only the one which become the target destination. It is obvious to say that developed countries open a wider market. There were 1.505 million foreign working in the UK in 2005. It was 5.4 percent of the UK employed population. It was quite significant considering the population in UK at the time. According to the statistic from 2006, out of 1.763.822 employed man In Austria, 234.506 were foreign workers.. The foreign workers in Canada were nearly 2.5 million in 2007. It increased 2.1% from the previous year. . The trend continues to increase until the crisis hit. The crisis will decline the labor force especially in Europe. The studies in some literatures about the motivation and reason behind the global labor mobilization are most of the time being related with welfare. The certain condition the origin country of labor brings some urges to grasp the opportunities elsewhere. Welfare is not only limited to wage however this seems to be the motive behind the mobilization. An illustration in the health field, nurse from Philippines earn $189 per month working in Manila. Filipino nurse work in Gulf could earn $570 and some of their fellow Filipino nurse work in US earns $3.000. Standard of living in the other countries is another driving force of this global labor.

Risk
Potential risks to the receiving countries are numerous. A part from the classical phenomenon such as illegal aliens, some social risks could also pinpoint. The undocumented workers come from illegal entrance or simply overstayed their visa and take up some informal jobs. Based on the data from 1994, the number of the category of labor reached up to 3 million in both USA and Europe. This fact brings the implication in the labor market although only apply in the unskilled market. This number will bring the implementation of tight policies concerning the global labor market in the particular country thus at the end affect both sending and receiving countries. Human being travel not only brings his body but also bring his value and culture. This fact could potentially resulted in conflict as interrelated with others. The conflict sometimes could be in direction to violent.

Opportunity
The global labor is expected to increase even though the economic crisis hit the market and inevitably will affect the labor market as such. The category of professional or even the unskilled one could taste the benefit from this global labor scheme. The professional could opened up and broaden up their opportunity to explore new multinational company in the different country. The unskilled labor could at least work their way up by working on their next generation even if they have to work long hours under minimum wage in that country.