How has globalization impacted on issues of human rights in a way that leads to The polarization of work, between those with too much and those with too little or none, is contributing to significant social inequalities. These inequalities have resulted largely from global economic restructuring, with its demands for just-in-time production and a flexible workforce consisting of part-time, contract and temporary employment. The restructuring has fostered an employer strategy of utilizing an ever smaller core of workers whose work time has increased through the extensive use of overtime. To supplement the core workforce, employers have drawn on cheap pools of non-standard and disposable workers. High unemployment levels have played a key role in disciplining labour, and maintaining large numbers of skilled and educated labour for capital’s flexible utilization. In view of high unemployment levels, even during periods of sustained expansion. The global movement of capital William Adler (2000) closely examines the disrupted lives of the three women who occupy an assembly-line job as the job and its company moves from New Jersey to rural Mississippi and to Matamoros, Mexico, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, in search of productivity and profit through globalization. It is not that the “old” commodification does not occur today. In Disposable People(1999), Kevin Bales shows how globalization is giving rise to a “new” slavery every bit as serious as the “old” one. But slavery in the modern era is different from slavery in the past, for it strikes the modern Western mind as not only immoral but also old. With the increasing gap between the top 20 percent and bottom 20 percent of the income scale, more rich can afford such services, and poorer and marginally middle-class people are eager to provide them. As their income rises, wealthy people especially those in high-pressure careers take advantage of the goods and services on this frontier, and many poor people aspire to do so. New forms of slavery Still, we can perhaps say that, within American and European culture, modernization has recently altered the character of the commodity frontier. We can speak crudely of newer and older expressions of it. Relative to ours today, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century commodification of domestic life involved a greater merger between service and server. An eighteenth-century white Southern aristocrat who bought a slave bought the person, not the service the ultimate commodification. And the indentured servant differed from the slave only in degree. The millionaire’s ad for a good masseuse, by contrast, strikes us as modern. It is purely the services, classified and priced, that are up for purchase, at least apparently. The ad seems to tease apart many aspects of what was once one role. Structural differentiation between family and economy, a process in English history, becomes here a cultural idea in a commercial context, which lends itself to an almost jazz like improvisation. As in jazz, the ad plays with the idea of dividing and recombining, suggesting different versions of various combinations. Especially in its more recent incarnation, the commercial