Postal Letter

How are peoples employment opportunities effected by Globalization?

Public Comments

1. Globalization has substantially changed the job market, to which young people, as newcomers, are "most vulnerable". New technologies have replaced manual labour, mainly affecting low skilled jobs in the service sector. Even in China, which has seen remarkable economic growth, the rate of unemployment is rising due to the ongoing transformation from agriculture to the less employmentintensive manufacturing and service industries, the reform of state-owned enterprises and the reorganization of the public sector. Trade liberalization forces companies to become more flexible and competitive. Many have become increasingly dependent on low-cost, flexible labour, often employed on an irregular basis. The outsourcing of sophisticated programming assignments and semi-skilled jobs in call centres to low-wage countries is perhaps the best known example of the global shift of employment opportunities for young people
2. Yes. Because of globalisation, the employees of small buisnesses don't earn money/ get fired because the buisness dosn't make as much money because theire compeating with a multinational.
3. One major effect of globalization is that a lot of businesses are taking the employment where it is cheaper, jobs are lost. Whether they move their factories out of the country (which is happening more frequently) or if they outsource the work to foreign countries, the result is the same, people lose jobs. There is also international competition between advanced countries (such as the USA) and not as advanced countries (such as Mexico or China). The advanced countries can't compete wage-wise with these countries, which has a compounding effect on the job markets.
4. “The world’s poor are, in large measure, either left out of the economic globalization or are its victims. Globalized markets and transnational corporations may provide opportunities, stimulating economic development and creating new or higher-paying jobs.” (Mansbach & Rhodes) As globalization creates winners, it also creates losers. Globalization's dark side deals with the great increase of international competition from the immense expansion of global trade. Because business is taking over the world, social structures are starting to break down and the social stress is greatly affecting the economy. Many people lose their jobs when big corporations move to foreign countries for cheaper labor. Eventually poverty in the community increases, people lose their lifetime job security, workers are put at great risk, industrialization falls apart, violence and racism rises, and the environment begins to suffer. So essentially, one life is being replaced by another due to the foreign competition. Free trade isn’t for ordinary people and globalization brings no justice to the fundamental right of being a human being. And the people on the other end (in foreign countries, i.e. Mexico) who receive jobs - it hardly leads to social justice. The people work for low wages in terrible, unstable conditions. Globalization isn’t fair to the poor and they need to also gain something from it. "The biggest downfall to globalization is that the inequality in institutional arrangements produce unequal distribution of income and the sharing of benefits of globalization.” (Amartya Sen)
5. It lowers the possibilities for most. It does so by sending jobs anywhere on the planet. Including countries which have been all but destroyed by years of tyrannical abuse. It can never build those forsaken lands up, but will easily tear a great nation down. It's practiced & pushed by the controlling 15% of a rich country. This, so that 15% can keep stealing even more. Disagree w/me? Wait 'til you get to be my age, & have seen as much as I.