Global shift & Containerisation Flashcards
1
Q
Global shift
A
filtering down on manufacturing industry from developed to lower wage economies
2
Q
International divisions of labour
A
- Highly skilled- paid, decision-making, researcher + managerial occupations (HICs)
- Unskilled- poorly paid assembly occupations (LIC’s)
* Radical changes in the last 40 years= LIC’s developed their own industrial + commercial bases + their own TNCs which have spread globally
* They are now a threat to HIC’s
3
Q
4 Asian Tiger economies
A
- Hong Kong
- Taiwan
- Singapore
- South Korea
4
Q
Impacts on HIC’s
A
+ Investment in tertiary sector
- Places like Docklands become run down
- Infrastructure not invested in- building run down
- Deindustrialisation
- Counterurbanisation
- Loss of jobs in HIC