Is Globalisation a Good Thing?

Is Globalisation a good thing?

It was the anti-globalisation movement that really put globalisation on the map. As a word it has existed since the 1960s, but the protests against this allegedly new process, which its opponents condemn as a way of ordering people's lives, brought globalisation out of the financial and academic worlds and into everyday current affairs jargon.

But that scarcely brings us nearer to what globalisation means. The phenomenon could be a great deal of different things, or perhaps multiple manifestations of one prevailing trend.

Is globalisation a good thing? is a question where you hear different answers everyday. “The poor people can accutally earn some money” is a good point but “they earn very little money for such hard work” is a bad point. Many people may argue that they are not paid well enough but if you think about it if sweatshops where not around in MEDC’s the people who work for the sweatshops would not get any money at all

Here are some facts:

• In 2000 people in the uk spent £28 billion on clothing

• Woman and child £470 for every month

• In Middle ages wool and cloth where britains main export

• The UK is the larges wool producer over 80 kg of wool a year

• Nearly 70% of it is exported

• China Is the worlds biggest exporter of clothing (over 15% of the worlds share)

Ford is an exaple of globalisation since they are a tnc and sell many of their cars in india. Some facts about ford are:

• The Ford motor company is the world’s second largest car manufacturer

• For employs over 300 000 people world wide

• For make Jaguars, Land Rovers, Aston Martin and other ranges of car, it also makes lots of trucks

• The ford motor company company was started by Henry Ford in Detroit in 1903, with 10 employees, hardly the global company it is today

• By the late 1990, Ford was:

• Manufacturing or assembling cars worldwide

• Locating new factories in LEDC’s

• Making different partsfir dufferent models in different...