Impact Of Globalization In China

The world economy has improved rapidly as a result of globalization in past decades. However, many environmental problems began to emerge during the economic boom. Especially, in the middle of the 20th century after World War II, many countries restarted economic development and urban construction. At this time, severe air pollution influenced a number of regions. For instance, London was affected by a critical air pollution event, called the Great Smog of London, in December 1952. During a week, 4000 people had died as a direct result of smog and over 100000 were got ill by the human respiratory tract. Subsequently, from 1978 to now, China has seen a great amount of economic increase, with its gross domestic product (GDP) expanding hundreds time since the reform and opening up. Although China has obtained a huge progress with the globalization, it has resulted in a series of environmental problems at the same time. The aim of the essay is to discover how the globalization affected the environment on air pollution, soil pollution and biological invasion in China. And I intend to analyze the instances of the connection between air

Globalization is the process of the world becoming more connected. This process comes with major pros and some major cons. One country that suffers greatly from a negative consequence of globalization is China. China is currently suffering from air pollution. Air pollution has negative affects on both health and the environment. Although China is impacted negatively, the world impact overall, is positive.

Large corporations such as Nike, Gap, and Reebok and many others from the United States have moved their factories to undeveloped nations; barely pay their employees enough to live on. Countries such as China, Indonesia, and Haiti have readily abundant cheap labor. There should be labor laws or an obligation of respecting workers to provide decent working conditions, fair wages, and safety standards.

• The enormous surplus of labor in China imperils workers worldwide as international competition puts incessant downward pressure on wages and working conditions, leading the apparel and textile industries to favor the cheapest and most Draconian producers.

Dexter Roberts and Pete Engardio in “Secrets, Lies, and Sweatshops,” writes about the various struggles that the United States has with production factories overseas. Wal-Mart claims they have rules for the sweatshops to follow but China still violates the labor laws by hiring consultants to give tips to sneak around auditors. The American people enjoy their everyday items at a low price, which Wal-Mart demands to the sweatshops. The sweatshops are struggling to provide these low price items to Wal-Mart and keep their working conditions humane. Roberts and Engardio explain in the article how companies that have overseas production are attempting to provide the managers and employees with skills to make the overtime required more effective.

China has produced multiple jobs for the unemployed but not in the best way. The working conditions in Chinese markets are not the best. In China clothing industries, an employee makes $4.20 an hour whereas in a country such as the US, an employee makes $10.00. China also participates in the use of children to work in their factories.4 In some countries, child labor laws are put into place, but in China they do not have these laws. The conditions of the work place are referred to as “sweat shops.” One of the biggest issues facing the Chinese factories is something known as sandblasting. Sandblasting is a technique used to treat denim so it has a worn look. By performing this technique, it exposes workers to silica dust particles which severely damages

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd which trades as Foxconn Technology group or as the media calls it Foxconn has been in media limelight recently due to labor problems that have surfaced from the organization. Foxconn is a major equipment manufacturer supplier to electronics giants like Blackberry, Apple, Microsoft Xbox, Sony PlayStation and the Nintendo Wii. The internet has several articles and controversies regarding the deplorable worker conditions and cases of suicides by the workers.

Globalization is a process that refers to the increased integration between different countries and economies as well as the increased impact of international influences on all aspects of life and economic activity. Over the last 50 years, globalization has had a tremendous impact on the Chinese economy. The impacts brought forth by globalization can be both positive and negative and effect both economic performance, economic growth and the development of China’s economy. Globalization is the main factor responsible for China’s significant growth that has taken place over the last two decades. However, globalization itself is not entirely responsible. The Chinese economy has also implemented strategies which have been very effective in promoting economic growth and development. These strategies include the implantation of“Open door policy”, “Reformation” of China’s agricultural system and joining the World Trade Organisation.

In these sweatshops, workers are generally offered low wages with little nonwage benefits. In certain factories, workers have been denied of a “living wage” as their take-home pay have been insufficient to satisfy basic standards of living. Typically, in these countries, the minimum wage laws were violated and workers were weakly unionised to bargain for higher wages. For example, a typical Chinese worker earns a wage of Rmb$250-$350 while the minimum wage was supposed to be Rmb$350.

The media have reported on the poor conditions that workers have to endure in China. Newspapers and websites have shown pictures of exhausted factory workers sleeping next to the production line or instances of notes left in product boxes detailing the hardships that they are subjected to. Even if a company 's own factories in China have no issues it doesn 't mean that their numerous suppliers aren 't exploiting their workers. For example,

Li Qiang, a labor rights activist and the founder of China Labor Watch, states that “they [contractors] are encouraging the exploitation of Chinese laborers by hiring factories based on the lowest price and the fastest production” (Chu and Yun). But what happens as a result, according to an academic journal coauthored by Dara O’Rourke, Ph.D., and industrial hygienist Garrett D. Brown, is that the country becomes a magnet for socially inadequate organizations due to lax enforcement of regulations and the suppression of labor rights activists. Furthermore, the easy accessibility of cheap labor indicates a “troubling model for countries seeking to attract foreign investment and develop domestic enterprise” (O’Rourke and

Although this sometimes isn’t the factories fault because most of the workers are uninsured so they are denied medical and social services (“China: Beijing’s Migrant 1”). Most of the factories do try to pay their workers by hour at about twenty cents per hour, but some only pay them once a year (Goldman 1). This however is breaking the rule of Labor Law fifty in China, which states that workers must be paid on a monthly basis. The average wage per month is only about sixty-five dollars which isn’t a sufficient amount of money to support an average family (“China: Beijing’s Migrant 1”). These people try to work overtime to earn more money, but often times they are forced to do this regardless (Goldman 2). Chinese workers often work in fear, because they have to ask permission to leave even after their shifts are done and to even go to the bathroom (Goldman 1). The Chinese workforce is starting to realize these problems and they won’t stand for it.

Over the past decade the industry of production has evolved from the simple process of the creation of goods to an elaborate method of fabrication and distribution. Many changes in how things can be made have revolutionized the way the manufacturing industry meets it goals.This transition into an efficient system of manufacturing benefited many such as the consumer but at the expense of the worker making these goods and products. Bruce Rockowitz, a Hong Kong-based business executive told the The New York Times that “Consumers are ultimately the ones responsible for dangerous conditions in garment assembly plants in the Global South” ("Who Really Benefits From Sweatshops?"). It is the consumers and their unwillingness to pay higher prices for goods that force factory owners to neglect certain rights to the workers. Although industrialization allowed for a faster and less expensive method of production, modern factories in China operate in such a way that negatively affects the workers due to overworking, the lack of safety regulations in the factories, and unfair wages that employees earn.

Many times the working conditions for the Apples factories in China have been compared to “modern-day sweatshops”. In reality, it’s just about the closest the U.S. has gotten to allowing sweatshops to exist since the first piece of legislation eradicating sweatshop conditions was passed in 1997. Apple workers keep silent, in fear for their safety, as well as the safety of their families. A huge shadow is cast over the Chinese Apple Inc. factories in hopes that Apple consumers will continue to live in enough ignorance to purchase their products. The fact of the matter is, these issues are becoming more prominent, and people are starting to investigate. There’s numerous articles written on this issue. An article that stood out among the rest was written about a girl who attempted to commit suicide, in order to free herself from the slave labor she was ultimately being forced into. Her name was Tian Yu, and

“You don’t understand, we have no additional capacity!” has claimed and showcased the condition of considerable labor-intensive enterprises currently. Doubtlessly, over 99.99% of the enterprises are always working their tails off to augment productivity with least costing，thus contributing to workers’ overwhelming workloads probably—Apple’s important foundry, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd (also known as Foxconn) in Taiwan，used to be condemned strongly by the public due to intensive operators’ suicidal jump in Shenzhen, China in 2010. What’s worse, most of those suicidal jumpers experienced overwhelming overtime working before their death, which shocked whole China and provoked public to concentrate on the sweatshop issue around us.