Globalization leads to outsourcing. When businesses develop international influence and expand, they redistribute jobs. Outsourcing has negative effects in the business sector at home and abroad. Currently, economists know that globalization’s most devastating effects include exploiting people and harming local job security. Outsourcing, a byproduct of globalization, threatens the manufacturing-based core of the American economy and substitutes it for a cheaper, foreign workforce. This foreign workforce is shamefully underpaid and subject to conditions that are worse than sweatshops. Additionally, decreased regulation in foreign countries, like low (in some cases nonexistent) minimum wage and low (in some cases nonexistent) environmental
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In an article titled “A Day in the Life of an IPhone Factory Worker”, an undercover journalist describes the inhumane experiences he experienced while almost slaving away for Apple. He describes his “12-hour assembly line workdays” in such a compelling way that his story would devastate any human to their very core. It is awful how there are millions of people being taken advantage of simply because of outsourcing. These people are not only adults, but they are also children. Outsourcing preys on children and robs them of a true childhood. For example, in January 2017, almost a thousand children were found working in a Shenzhen factory. Their school sent them to work fourteen-hour shifts in a factory. Some of these children were less than eight years old. This operation led on for years. Outsourcing forces people into terrible working conditions. Up The Yangtze is a powerful movie which describes a family affected by globalization, specifically the capitalization of the river with the construction of the massive Three Gorges Dam and a luxury cruise ship, which forces them into extreme poverty, where the only work is on a cruise ship. This movie is able to present the toll on people’s living conditions and jobs when new businesses capture the local economy. This also affects …show more content…
Factories, including energy plants, outsourcing’s weapon against the environment, have led to more air pollution than any other cause. According to special Report 20, Burden of Disease Attributable to Coal-Burning and Other Major Sources of Air Pollution in China, “The analyses show that [factories and energy plants] are the single largest source of air pollution-related health impact, contributing to some 366,000 premature deaths in China in 2013” (Study). This is serious. When air pollution, in one year, causes this many deaths- there is a problem. Many cities in china are transitioning to manufacturing-based cores so more factories are being built. There is a huge expansion within these cities, not only their size, but also their environmental footprint. A volume in a book called Health and Mortality Transition in Shanghai Project Research Team. “The Impact of Air Pollution on Mortality in Shanghai.” China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change, edited by Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo states that: “Shanghai, like many large cities in developing countries, has been experiencing a rapid transition. Fast economic growth and urban expansion have led to considerable changes in people’s living environments and natural environments” (Book). Cities are changing for the worse because of these horrible environmental effects. The air pollution
In an article titled “A Day in the Life of an IPhone Factory Worker”, an undercover journalist describes the inhumane experiences he experienced while almost slaving away for Apple. He describes his “12-hour assembly line workdays” in such a compelling way that his story would devastate any human to their very core. It is awful how there are millions of people being taken advantage of simply because of outsourcing. These people are not only adults, but they are also children. Outsourcing preys on children and robs them of a true childhood. For example, in January 2017, almost a thousand children were found working in a Shenzhen factory. Their school sent them to work fourteen-hour shifts in a factory. Some of these children were less than eight years old. This operation led on for years. Outsourcing forces people into terrible working conditions. Up The Yangtze is a powerful movie which describes a family affected by globalization, specifically the capitalization of the river with the construction of the massive Three Gorges Dam and a luxury cruise ship, which forces them into extreme poverty, where the only work is on a cruise ship. This movie is able to present the toll on people’s living conditions and jobs when new businesses capture the local economy. This also affects …show more content…
Factories, including energy plants, outsourcing’s weapon against the environment, have led to more air pollution than any other cause. According to special Report 20, Burden of Disease Attributable to Coal-Burning and Other Major Sources of Air Pollution in China, “The analyses show that [factories and energy plants] are the single largest source of air pollution-related health impact, contributing to some 366,000 premature deaths in China in 2013” (Study). This is serious. When air pollution, in one year, causes this many deaths- there is a problem. Many cities in china are transitioning to manufacturing-based cores so more factories are being built. There is a huge expansion within these cities, not only their size, but also their environmental footprint. A volume in a book called Health and Mortality Transition in Shanghai Project Research Team. “The Impact of Air Pollution on Mortality in Shanghai.” China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change, edited by Ligang Song and Wing Thye Woo states that: “Shanghai, like many large cities in developing countries, has been experiencing a rapid transition. Fast economic growth and urban expansion have led to considerable changes in people’s living environments and natural environments” (Book). Cities are changing for the worse because of these horrible environmental effects. The air pollution