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Regularisation measures in Spain have formed part of an overall immigration policy that until a few years ago was geared more towards border security than to meeting the demands of the labour market. However, the regularisation campaign in 2005 was different: it enjoyed widespread popular support and sought to combat the informal economy and grant employment rights to immigrants who were in fact working. As a result, the labour market is now better regulated, but efforts to combat segmentation have not been so successful. Furthermore, the regularisation campaigns were inadequately funded, and failed to bring about sufficient improvements in public policies.

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This article is a supplement to the articles on low pay in Europe published in the Winter 2000 issue of TRANSFER. An introductory section on conceptual issues has been supressed; the interested reader is referred to the articles in no. 4/2000.

El trabajo analiza el impacto que tiene la globalización sobre la acción sindical. Esta se analiza desde una doble vertiente: la globalización en términos económicos convencionales y en términos de crisis ecológica. Se estudian los impactos concretos que ambos procesos tienen para las prácticas sindicales habituales y se muestra que los mismos afectan directamente a aspectos cruciales de las políticas sindicales, tales como su dependencia del crecimiento económico y las políticas públicas. Se considera por último que la reconstrucción de un amplio movimiento sindical sólo es posible con un ambicioso proceso de innovación política y organizativa.