Where Am I Wearing By Kelsey Timmerman Essay

Kelsey Timmerman began his journey by traveling all over the world to find the negative impacts of globalization on developing countries and developed nations. In Kelsey Timmerman’s novel “Where Am I Wearing”, his search revealed mixed conclusions about globalization. When he met factory workers in China, Cambodia, and Bangladesh, he saw the positive impact of globalization in that more people had better opportunities and were coming out of poverty. However, they still worked in terrible conditions, were underpaid, and worked unmatched hours compared to other developed countries. He also found how globalization negatively affected developed nations such as the United States as citizens were losing their jobs to places that offered cheaper labor. One scenario that Kelsey Timmerman found was two workers at a shoe factory in China. Their names were Dewan and Zhu Chun. Their son, who lived in the countryside with the grandparents, received money from the parents to sustain their farmland and lifestyle. This need of families to send daughters and parents to work in a garment factory shows how globalization is positively affecting developing countries like China. As numerous factories began to move to places of cheaper labor, more opportunities to make a …show more content…
Many Cambodians like Nari dreamed of opening their own business and having their own source of income. Before globalization created a factory in Cambodia, Nari’s dream of opening a beauty salon was implausible because she did not have the funds. Although she was only paid forty five dollars per month in a blue jeans factory, she too, like Dewan and Zhu Chun, was presented with an opportunity to come out of poverty to pursue her dream. She believed that globalization provided her with a job at a factory with a secure source of income. This opportunity lifted her out of