HIST-251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Land Degradation, Junk Food, Kfc
25 Mar 2016
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Globalization manufacturing work is outsourced to developing nations like china where the cost of manufacturing goods and wages are lower. Programmers, editors, scientists and accountants have lost their jobs due to outsourcing to cheaper locations like india. Prisoners and child workers are used to work in inhumane conditions. Safety standards are ignored to produce cheap goods. Job insecurity - earlier people had stable, permanent jobs. Now people live in constant dread of losing their jobs to competition. Increased job competition has led to reduction in wages and consequently lower standards of living. Terrorists have access to sophisticated weapons enhancing their ability to inflict damage. Terrorists use the internet for communicating among themselves. Companies have set up industries causing pollution in countries with poor regulation of pollution. Fast food chains like mcdonalds and kfc are spreading in the developing world. People are consuming more junk food from these joints which has an adverse impact on their health.
