Globalization
Globalization is a concept with many differing definitions. Globalization is
a process which entails the free movement of capital, goods, services and labor
around the world. Globalization is the massive control of the world's economy by
big business, this control transcends the boundaries of state and country. This
transcendence across countries makes the subunits of the economy decompose
and depend on the larger companies with a controlling interest in most of the
capital within a given economy. These companies then form global constituents,
they then have a control of a large volume of capital within many countries. This
global control of capital comes through the deindustrialization of larger economic
superpowers to third world countries for economic gains of these companies.
Seeking lower wages and a large unskilled labor force, companies find it in third
world countries. These are concrete examples of global companies seeking
wage reductions on an international scale. This migration causes a
deindustrialization for the larger countries and a industrialization in these
developing countries. In a curious fashion they tend to confirm the Marxist view,
long thought out of fashion, that the working classes would be kept at subsistence
level. Reebok Shoes, and other footwear giants, are forever shifting their
manufacturing base to lands of lower wage scales. (This is more easily done in
that industry than would be possible in steel or automobile manufacturing.) From
New England to the American South and on to the American colony of Puerto
Rico, thence the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea and Thailand -- until the annual
wages...
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