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At the beginning of the millennium, a global and civilizational consensus is being renewed. Its most emblematic expression is the signing of the Global Compact (GC), promoted by the United Nations. Its conceptual bases find in the doctrines of management the main guidelines for large companies and states in order to bring a “more human” face to capitalism. In this sense, the great challenge will be to transpose the new global mandates founded on human rights, decent work, the fight against corruption and the protection of the environment, -among other issues- in different regions and countries. To this end, different networks of the so-called GC are created, located at regional and national level. Their purpose is to provide corporate literature and materials that contribute to implementing the recommendations of the new global consensus in the daily work and in the territories where factories are located. In the described scenario, Corporate Social Responsibility – CSR – provides the key semantics to, for example, socially legitimise the image of a company that is responsible for the care of the environment. In this framework, a corporate pedagogy is being strengthened in order to shape a new worker who collaborates with the company and at the same time must respect global corporate mandates. In other words, corporate pedagogical devices are designed to shape workers who see themselves as global citizens.