Bright and Geyer Response

Bright and Geyer say that it’s misleading to say the world is undergoing the process of globalization, while they continue to list multiple affects of globalization. Globalization is not just something that large powers partake in, the growth of business does as well. They prove this in their statement “that relocates the centers of poverty from the countryside to the slums of megacities” (p.295). That is a worldwide affect of globalization, this affect occurs in two ways. In developed countries business pulls out of big cities to find cheaper labor in less developed countries. This leaves the people in those cities without jobs and leaves the area in poverty. On the other side of the situation in less developed countries sweatshops are built in cities where a large amount of workers can be hired while being paid less than a smaller amount of workers in any developed country. The situation leaves both areas impoverished while the business grows exponentially.

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