Globalisation Case studies Flashcards
Shrinking world- containerisation
22 industrial countries a 320% rise in bilateral trade
dock labour 1.7tonnes per hour whereas containers 30tonnes per hour
TNC china
Used to be labour intensive but now TNC such as coca cola have had an increasing percentage on the service sector
TNC in Bangladesh
Daewoo- increased exports, by 1992 accounted for 46% of bangladesh’s total export earnings
-low wage rates
-spare quotas to supply ready made clothes
De industrialisation- redcar
2,200 employers lost jobs, ghost town, shops struggling on high street.
£30,000 a year to £17,000
young men likely to get black market jobs
Migrant workers- Qatar
abuse- offered higher pay than received, deaths and injuries, 88 forced to stay, 12 months to end the slavery, human rights abused
foreign buyers in london
103,000 homes and flats owned
£84.2mil worth of property
delivering a boost to current market sentiment
Westernisation- china
china are now eating more like america
5kg-50kg of meat a year
this increase demands for cows
growing soy is needed
deforestation of the amazon
- social impact to china
-environmental impact to SAmercia
social media development
There will always be a new and upcoming social media as development continues
Travel development
Airbus A380s goal was to fly more passengers to more major airports
525 passengers
Travel development 2022
Planes took a big hit during covid but recovered fast and needed upgrading
More environmental factors were taken into place.
Mobile phones development
Farmers are using phones to find new markets and better efficiency
Phones used to widen agriculture not just improve it
Communications development
New cabes being built to make trading info faster
Building in shallow water helps efficiency but enviromental problems
How has social media helped development
Circulates business ideas quicker
Target audiences
A negative review of a product will circulate quicker
Papua New Guinea, cultural diffusion
Thousands of years ago tribes wouldn’t wear clothes and it was completely normal but now society sees Americans successfully and clothed and so they want to wear clothes too and get jobs and earn money.
Why is North Korea a detached place
-The Korean Demilitarised Zone (de facto a new border between North and South Korea)
-Political factors therefore best explain North Korea’s lack of connection to the global economy.
Chinas open door policy
why do English call centres outsource to India
Many Indian citizens are fluent in English
Indias costs to outsourcing
-business process workers report exploitation
-ten hour shifts 6 day weeks
-gap between rich and poor widen
Indias benefits to outsourcing
-good middle class wages according to Indians
- companies become extremely profitable
Why do high wage migrants move
- they are highly skilled and socially influential individuals
- some elite migrants live as global citizens having homes in different countries
- many skilled and affluent Americans and Russians oligarchs live or work in the UK, even though these countries are not part of the EU
Where are low waged migrants drawn too and what do they do
– Low-waged international migrants are drawn towards global hubs in large numbers. London, Los Angeles, Dubai and Riyadh are all home to large numbers of legal and illegal immigrants working for low pay in kitchens, construction sites or as domestic cleaners
Extreme nationalism in Europe
- nationalist parties often oppose immigration and openly embrace fascism. In the 1990s the uks British national
- although race relation in UK have improved many racially aggravated assaults occur.
How has china been censored leading to control globalisation
-google withdraw its services from china in 2010 when the Chinese government insisted that search engine results should be censored to hide information about Tiananmen Square, Facebook twitter and YouTube remain unavailable due to the great fire wall of China
- creating own versions of socials for internal use only
How is North Korea unconnected
they have no access at all to the internet as a result of state controls
What two levels can restrictions operate on
- National (china)
- Personal (North Korea)
How has the uk limit immigration
-since 2010 a five tier point system has been put into place to control immigration and make sure the economic migrants could benefit to the UKs economy
