Spaces and exchanges: globalization

Spaces and exchanges

I'm going to introduce the notion spaces and exchanges. An exchange is the act of giving or receiving something in substitution for something else. Nowadays, these exchanges can be under several economic forms, cultural forms and movement of people. Exchanges happen from a point in a world to another point. What impact does globalization have on international exchanges ? Firstly, We will see the actors of the exchanges and secondly we will see the inequality times that run globalization.

This document is an excerpt from the book « A Scandalous man » written by Gavin Ester in 2005. The two characters are a corporate lawyer from private equity firm and the second man is a translator. The lawyer needs help because he wants to make a deal with a Czech company, so he needs a translator and he will pay him significant salary because no many people speak Czech. The translator isn't proud of himself because just after the lawyer has made the deal, he heard him speaking to his office in Manhattan and he had a haughty behavior. The translator understood at that moment he just helped a man to make a deal in order to remove jobs. Thanks to this action the translator won thousands dollars and he doesn't have any remorse. Through this document we understand how great powers lead globalization by using money and make benefits. The lawyer wants to show that american people are superior from the others but the translator thinks that there is no link with the nationality but with the personality. Global great powers have a tendency to integrate themselves in interior business to run them to their profit. In a certain way, great companies also rule the world by capitalization or their power. Governments also have negotiated dramatic reductions in barriers to commerce and have established international agreements to promote trade in goods, services, and investment. Taking advantage of new opportunities in foreign markets, corporations have built foreign factories and established production and marketing arrangements with foreign partners. A defining feature of globalization, therefore, is an international industrial and financial business structure.

Globalization has a negative impact as we can note in the Patrick Chappatte's document "After Bangladesh". There is 20% blood in a tee-shirt and 20% sweat, it demonstrates the hard working conditions. Also, the clothes are cheap, they don't have a high cost while a lot of people die during the production of these clothes. Bangladesh is the second exporter of textile goods after China. In Bangladesh, a Rona Plaza factory collapsed in Dakha. Bangladesh is characterized by a loss of security in the factories and in the working conditions of workers. In the picture, we can see activists grabbing signs. Activists and the families of the victims marched to denounce the working conditions. Globalization affects poor countries. The working conditions are extremely hard to the workers. Because of globalization, the social inequalities between rich countries and poor countries are more naked et the offshoring to countries where the workforce is more cheap is more marked. Also, many people see their families die or leave to another kind of life to have better life conditions. Important fluxes can be seen as the Mexican flux to America or the Arab flux to Europe, America and Europe are

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