Globalisation (year 9) Flashcards
What are different things which link us to the world?
- Culture: friends from different cultures, foreign parents
- Clothing: clothing from manufacturers around the world (e.g brandy Melville, urban outfitters), Nike (mainly manufactured in Italy), Cotton (from Egypt, India, Americas, Africa etc.)
- Sport: Basketball (from America)
- Music: (America, Canada)
- TV shows and Movies: set/filmed around the world e.g Friends, Romeo & Juliet, Forest Gump
- Travelling: experiencing different cultures, travelling to different countries
- Food: fruit from abroad, cuisines from around the world, pasta (Italy), sushi (Japan), noodles (China), salmon (Chile, Norway, Canada, Scotland)
What is Globalisation?
Globalisation is the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected. We now communicate, trade, travel and share other’s cultures more easily around the world.
Why has globalisation happened?
- technology has made it easier to communicate. We communicate more, however the depth of communication has decreased. Online sponsors make international products more popular (on social media and the Internet). Technology also allows businesses to operate in more than one country.
- trans national incorporations
- Transport has increased rapidly between countries. This is due to containerisation. Containerisation is where goods are transported in large ships around the world. This is due to more car ownership and networks, trains etc.
- MEDCs create a demand for clothes. Companies use sweat shops to provide for this demand and so that they are able to get more profit because of cheap labour costs. Sweat Shops are allowed because of the lax labour rules in LEDCs.
What is a sweatshop?
A sweatshop is a factory or workshop especially in the clothing industry when manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions.
What are the conditions like in sweatshops?
- poor, noisy conditions
- many people working in cramped, dirty, uncomfortable factories
- don’t have good toilet facilities
Why do people work in sweatshops?
-sweatshop workers do not have a choice of where they work because they are often very desperate for a job and will accept any job offered to them, even if they earn hardly enough to live on. The workers cannot really argue about working conditions
What would happen if factory workers in sweatshops refused to work for these wages?
They would be fired and if the workers went on strike they could all be fired and replaced easily
What would happen if the government in the poor countries with sweatshops passed a law that the factories must pay higher wages?
The companies who employ the factory workers would stop buying from those factories and instead buy from factories in countries where workers are paid less so that the company can sell their products for less and get more profit. The factory workers in the country with the new laws would all become unemployed
What would happen if customers refuse to buy clothes made in sweatshops?
The companies would be put under pressure to convert to factories where workers are paid more. If the clothing company decides to pay the factory more, the factory may pay workers more, or could use the money for more profit. However, the company could also convert to a completely different factory which is not a sweatshop and the previous factory would have all of its workers unemployed.
What is an employment sector?
Sectors to categorise the types of jobs people do
What are the four employment sectors?
Primary Industry/ Sector, Secondary Industry/Sector, Tertiary Industry, Quaternary Sector
What is the Primary Industry/Sector?
These jobs involve the extraction of raw materials
What are examples of jobs in the Primary Industry/Sector?
Mining, Logging, Fishing
What is the Secondary Industry/Sector?
Manufacturing industries involve transforming or making something with raw materials
What are examples of jobs in the Secondary Industry/Sector?
Making cars, chefs
