“Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations” (Lawrence 1). Globalization was implemented to provide low cost products and economical opportunities for developing countries but, in reality, the cons outweigh the pros. Globalization has increased human trafficking and decreased the value of the working class. Globalization has created affordable products in developed countries. However, the low costs have caused major corporations to pay workers less in an effort to gain a higher profit. These companies center their factories in countries that lack wage regulations. The lack of regulations and policies “concentrate wealth at the top, removing...the very tools
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The governments in poverty-stricken countries recognize the problems and struggles their people are facing. However, these governments have very little, to no power, to implement any significant changes. This is due to the nature “of...free trade, financial liberalization, deregulation, reduced government spending, and privation” (Juhasz 116-17) regulations. These policies steal away powers from weakly structured governments and deluge these privileges on the major corporations who are apathetic towards the working class. This apathy creates a disregard for working conditions of the poor and the human rights that every human are entitled to are ignored and abused. For example, many “Chinese workers are denied the right to form unions, are often paid less than China’s… very low minimum wage, and are denied overtime pay...and...there is...China’s network of laogai (‘reform through labor”) prison camps” (Fletcher). There are also evident effects of gobalization undermining regulations in democratic governments as well. In the US, the World Trade Organization “ha[s] ruled that:... that US clean air standards and laws...are...illegal” (Barnhizer 603-04). Additionally, in non-developed countries, the laws that are deemed “illegal” are the laws that protect human health and living …show more content…
The horrendous conditions of the factories, combined with the false promises of a better life, cause many young people to leave the factories and enter the human trafficking cycle. The life outside of the factories, however, is possibly even more dangerous and even more difficult to survive in. For instance, many farmers in the southern Hemisphere turn to child labor and human trafficking as source of cheap labor. Unfortunately, these farmers are only striving to lower costs and have no budget for fair wages for their workers. The absence of pay creates slave-like conditions, and, because the farms are in rural areas, the children have no way to escape this lie they were forced into. In West Africa, “more than thirty percent of African children between ten and fourteen are agricultural workers” (Ofodile 65) and “about forty-one percent of children are economically active”. There is hardly any significant effort to stop the use of child labor and the United States “refused to sign an international convention for the abolition of child labor and forced labor” (Parenti 54). This is proof that the major companies and corporations are pursuing profit more than they are striving to preserve human dignity and
The governments in poverty-stricken countries recognize the problems and struggles their people are facing. However, these governments have very little, to no power, to implement any significant changes. This is due to the nature “of...free trade, financial liberalization, deregulation, reduced government spending, and privation” (Juhasz 116-17) regulations. These policies steal away powers from weakly structured governments and deluge these privileges on the major corporations who are apathetic towards the working class. This apathy creates a disregard for working conditions of the poor and the human rights that every human are entitled to are ignored and abused. For example, many “Chinese workers are denied the right to form unions, are often paid less than China’s… very low minimum wage, and are denied overtime pay...and...there is...China’s network of laogai (‘reform through labor”) prison camps” (Fletcher). There are also evident effects of gobalization undermining regulations in democratic governments as well. In the US, the World Trade Organization “ha[s] ruled that:... that US clean air standards and laws...are...illegal” (Barnhizer 603-04). Additionally, in non-developed countries, the laws that are deemed “illegal” are the laws that protect human health and living …show more content…
The horrendous conditions of the factories, combined with the false promises of a better life, cause many young people to leave the factories and enter the human trafficking cycle. The life outside of the factories, however, is possibly even more dangerous and even more difficult to survive in. For instance, many farmers in the southern Hemisphere turn to child labor and human trafficking as source of cheap labor. Unfortunately, these farmers are only striving to lower costs and have no budget for fair wages for their workers. The absence of pay creates slave-like conditions, and, because the farms are in rural areas, the children have no way to escape this lie they were forced into. In West Africa, “more than thirty percent of African children between ten and fourteen are agricultural workers” (Ofodile 65) and “about forty-one percent of children are economically active”. There is hardly any significant effort to stop the use of child labor and the United States “refused to sign an international convention for the abolition of child labor and forced labor” (Parenti 54). This is proof that the major companies and corporations are pursuing profit more than they are striving to preserve human dignity and