GLOBL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Porfirio Díaz, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara
Document Summary
Big capital vs. big labor (unions strong) -> social contract. Global supply chain - search for factories around the world that could make products cheaper (competition) Big capital vs. fragmented labor (unions weak or non-existent) Global extremes of wealth and poverty: a growing gap. Large companies are a huge funnel/control in the world"s economy. The disappearing nation state - borders aren"t relevant anymore. Tribalism - when people are threatened, they turn towards their tribe. Tribalis, in its modern form: nationalism - us vs. them. Globalization goes back to the late 19th-20th century - u. s. had a strong investment in this region. The new world - source of raw materials. Hernan cortes conquers the aztec empire (mexico, 1519-1521) Francisco pizarro conquers the inca empire in peru, 1532. Decapitate the empire; substitute spanish rule for inca rule. Inca empire (mid 1400s-1533) - cuzco, peru. Poor mexico - so far from god, so close to the united states .
