GlobalizationGlobalization

Your ShoesYour Shoes• Designed in the US, Europe, or Designed in the US, Europe, or

JapanJapan• Assembled in AsiaAssembled in Asia• Use raw materials for the UPPER Use raw materials for the UPPER

(the top part)(the top part)Leather from Venezuela or TexasLeather from Venezuela or TexasNylon from South KoreaNylon from South Korea

• Use raw materials for the SOLE Use raw materials for the SOLE Rubber from BrazilRubber from BrazilSynthetic rubber from Taiwan Synthetic rubber from Taiwan

Your JobYour Job Trace the outline of your shoe on the Trace the outline of your shoe on the

paper provided and do the following:paper provided and do the following:1.1. Write the Write the CITY where you BOUGHT CITY where you BOUGHT the the

shoe along the left edge.shoe along the left edge.

2.2. Write the Write the CITY or COUNTRY CITY or COUNTRY where the where the company has its company has its headquartersheadquarters (ex. (ex. PUMA is based in Germany) along the PUMA is based in Germany) along the right edgeright edge

3.3. Write the Write the COUNTRY it was COUNTRY it was manufactured manufactured in the middlein the middle

GLOBALIZATIONGLOBALIZATIONThe development of a The development of a global societyglobal society•People, money, People, money, information, and goods information, and goods flow freely across national flow freely across national bordersborders..

• Really gets going under Regan in the 1980’sReally gets going under Regan in the 1980’s

How did it start?How did it start?1.1. Advances in transportation and Advances in transportation and

communicationcommunication• The InternetThe Internet• Air travelAir travel

2.2. Regional Free Trade Regional Free Trade AgreementsAgreements• Low/no tariffs to ship goods Low/no tariffs to ship goods

between countriesbetween countries North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),

The European Union, etc.The European Union, etc.

3. 3. Rise of Multinational Rise of Multinational CorporationsCorporations• Challenge state authority and Challenge state authority and

autonomyautonomy CokeCoke SonySony McDonaldsMcDonalds

• List two possible ways this might List two possible ways this might happen in your notebook.happen in your notebook.

Why Trade Globally?Why Trade Globally? Benefits of Trade:Benefits of Trade:

• Greater Greater potential for potential for economic economic growthgrowth

• Increase Increase economies of economies of scalescale

• Greater Greater employment employment opportunitiesopportunities

Trade has led to massive increases in wealth for many countries.Copyright: budgetstock, stock.xchng

Disadvantages Disadvantages of trade:of trade:• Increase in gap between Increase in gap between

rich and poorrich and poor• Dominance of global Dominance of global

trade by rich, northern trade by rich, northern hemisphere countrieshemisphere countries

• Lack of opportunities for Lack of opportunities for the poor to access the poor to access marketsmarkets

• Exploitation of workersExploitation of workers

In places with increased levels of In places with increased levels of poverty some disease persistpoverty some disease persist• TuberculosisTuberculosis

More POV PracticeMore POV Practice From the Morningside Center for Teaching Social

Responsibility, 2004

A taxi driver in Chile quit because he couldn't make enough money. He got a job at a chicken-processing plant in a small town owned by Chileans. The plant processes chickens for sale in Chile and for export to other Latin American countries as well as to Europe and Asia.

"His job is to stand in a freezing room and crack open chickens as they come down an assembly line at the rate of 41 chickens per minute," writes Tina Rosenberg in New York Times Magazine, 8/18/02. "His work uniform does not protect him from the cold, the man said, and after a few minutes of work he loses feeling in his hands. Some of his colleagues, he said, are no longer able to raise their arms. If he misses a day he is docked $30. He earns less than $200 a month. Globalization has offered this man a hellish job, but it is a choice he did not have before, and he took it. I don't name him because he is afraid of being fired. When the chicken company is hiring, the lines go around the block."