Globalisation Flashcards
(21 cards)
Definition of Globalisation
The increasing independence of countries around the world
Definition of outsourcing
When TNC’s relocate factories to save money
Definition of a sweatshop
A clothing factory with poor conditions and very low pay
What are the BRICS made of
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa
What is a Unipolar world
A world that contains only one superpower
What is a Bipolar world
A world that contains two dominant superpowers
What is a Multipolar world
A world that contains more than two superpowers
Who is the president of China
Xi Xingping
What is the largest thing about the BRICS
Land mass
What type of ships are used in global trade
Container
What do factories traditionally release during production? Carbon _________
Emissions
How is water pollution created
By people and factories emptying things like chemicals, dyes and acids used in clothes into rivers and lakes
What are landfill sites
Places where materials and old clothes are dumped into the land and covered which can produce GHG’s.
Some causes of globalisation
Producing clothes and accessories cheaply abroad with child labour and low paid slaves
What is containerisation
A way of transporting goods by ships which reduces costs which allows companies to outsource to Asia
Where are sweatshop workers generally recruited and paid
On the streets or in the middle of nowhere
How many breaks do sweatshop workers get a day
One if any
What is the global production cycle
The process of going from raw materials being shipped abroad, to the manufactured product getting transported across the world
What is different about the company Foxconn
They have so far replaced 50% of their workers with robots
What is the current issue with the South China Sea
China is claiming that they own everything inside the nine dash line because there are really good materials under the oceans
What was the competition between Apple and Hauwei
They were competing for the most phone sales in one year with Hauwei being Chinese and cheap but Apple being American, well known but expensive
