Analyse the impacts of deindustrialisation and the global shift east on the western world (15 marks) Deindustrialisation and the global shift east have both impacted upon the western world. Deindustrialisation is the reduction of industrial activity or capacity in a region or economy. Port Talbot is an example of how deindustrialisation impacts a region. The global shift east expresses the idea that world power is now inexorably tilting east. As a result of this shift east, deindustrialisation is exponentially increasing as manufacturing becomes more expensive to achieve. Deindustrialisation impacts the western world in a widely negative way, during the past 25 years, employment in manufacturing as a share of total employment has fallen dramatically …show more content…
Social impacts of deindustrialisation in Port Talbot (Wales) are job loss and living standards. Jobs are lost as manufacturing factories are closed which results in people having lower living standards as workers will not be earning money as they try to find jobs elsewhere. The economy was also impacted upon in Port Talbot, as coal and iron became too costly to get at for Port Talbot and so these materials had to be bought from abroad. This importation meant less money was being made for Wales’ own economy. As well as these negative impacts, the environment in Port Talbot was positively impacted as less ore and limestone was being extracted which meant habitats could be rebuilt and not destroyed by machinery used in manufacturing. This deindustrialisation also meant factories were closed down which decreased the volume of pollution in Port …show more content…
General Electric, a giant US multinational conglomerate, was a pioneer when it decided to shift thousands of back office jobs to India. What began as a trickle is now a flood of numerous leading companies in insurance, banking, travel, electricity generation and telecoms transferring their operations to India (this is an example of outsourcing). This global shift east has resulted in outsourcing which can lead to a minimum of 20% saving on processing costs. Currently, an Indian call centre worker earns around £3000 per year compared to £13,000 for a UK call worker in Newcastle. This cost saving will increase profits and shareholder’s returns on their investments capital, however, the UK will be negatively impacted as this cheap labour will be wanted by eastern companies and so jobs will be lost to this cheaper
Every since the industrial revolution, society has moved to jobs, factories, manufacturing goods and products, and larger cities. This process called industrialization is when an economy modifies its way of living from an agriculture based living to the production of merchandise in factories. The manual labor that is required for farm work is replaced with mass production on assembly lines. Andrew Blackwell visits this idea of industrialization in Visit Sunny Chernobyl but to a higher extent. Blackwell states “today that society is an industrial one, resource hungry and plant-spanning, growing so inefficiently large, we believe that it is disrupting its own host… It’s not just about living sustainably. It’s about being able to live with ourselves,”
The Industrial Revolution stimulated new ways of advancing technology as it spread throughout Great Britain. The issues raised by the growth of Manchester demonstrate the struggles of the working class and the devastating impact of industrialization on the environment and the will of the
Globalisation is a growing phenomenon that is the result of various developments in the global environment, each of which merits an individual analysis of its social impacts. For the purpose of this analysis, the focus will be placed upon arguably its most controversial aspect, offshore outsourcing. Offshore outsourcing, or offshoring, is becoming an increasingly common business practice as a result of a combination of the recent technological advancements in the areas of transportation and communication, and the increased competitiveness of the business world. From the perspective of firms, tapping into cheap labor from less developed countries is a very logical business decision to reduce costs and maximize profits. This has not only motivated businesses to engage in offshoring, it has sometimes been critical to their survival in fiercely competitive environments.
Industrialization is the process in which an economy is changed from an agricultural economy to a manufacturing approach and manual labor is replaced by machines in factories. Industrialization brought a more diverse amount of goods and more total goods and improved living for many but, for others it resulted in harsh working and living conditions for the poor and working class. Many positives and negative were present during the industrialization of the U.S. Positives such as more goods being distributed, easier way of doing things, and being able to mass produce. Negatives like children working long and difficult jobs and many workers having poor working conditions.
One way that globalization limits sustainable prosperity is the amount of environmental destruction that occurs in our growing world. For example, a process called shipwrecking is the deconstruction of ships that are no longer able to function properly. The ships are pulled up onto beaches in Bangladesh and are taken apart by workers with blow torches. The ships tend to rust leaving the beaches a reddish orange color. This rust can get into the ocean affecting many other parts of our world. Also, gasses that are produced and released into the environment from the blowtorches help contribute to the already occurring global warming. Another scary fact is that there is nearly one death per day in ship breaking yards, and nearly one quarter of them get some form of cancer due to the harsh chemicals. Ship breaking is a very dangerous job and puts many lives at risk. A big factor that helps wreck the environment is the large manufacturing plants that are located in many different countri...
The concept of post industrialism is a term coined by US sociologist Daniel Bell in his 1974 book 'The Coming Of Post-Industrial Society' in which he characterises it by the "Centrality of theoretical knowledge as the source of innovation and policy formation within the society" (Business Dictionary, 2014), this is highly western-centric in which the focus is a society that regards knowledge as power and technology as the instrument of those within it (Targ, 1976). This can only currently exist in the global west (Gibson, 1993), in which its exponent members are capable of realising industrialisation as a previous societal state as so to recognise the departure from it into a post-industrial state (Wikipedia, 2014). The features which define this departure can be identified as thus; Less and less people working for menial wage jobs, more people entering tertiary and quaternary education and work, the domination of the service sector, increasingly high levels of urbanisation, and as said before the prevailing dominance of technology and theoretical knowledge providing the basis for innovation.
The era of post-industrialism refers to a period of change where a society advances from a manufacturing base, to a society reliant on knowledge, services, and research. What emerges from the remains of the industrial society is a society based around services, contracts, precariousness, segmentation, and insecurity, etc. Divided are the prospects for this globalized, post-industrial society. People question who will benefit from this new era of globalization. Some view the post-industrial era as one that offers opportunities for the well-educated, creative, and young professional while others view it as an era involving less security, job deskilling and high levels of inequality (Krahn, Lowe, Hughes, 2008). If one of the main consequences of post-industrialism is a widening gap between the “haves” and the “have not’s” then who are those who make up these two distinct groups?
... growth and a lot of pollution as the world transformed into an Industrial driven economy. People re-located to the cities which was followed by heavier demands for city life and city products and more and more manufacturing took on the heavy toll of this huge demand.
The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, transport, and technology had a profound effect in North America. The industrial revolution marked a major turning point in history because it changed every aspect of life in America and the country as a whole. People started replacing ploughs and other tools for machines that could do twice the work. While others moved to large cities and started working in factories and other businesses. Huge industries such as the textile, steel, and coal industry came out and had a profound effect on the industrial revolution but, they would not have been extremely successful if it was not for railroads. The railroads played a vital role in the development and success of other industries. The railroads triggered the biggest leap in transportation in history. Through technological and entrepreneurial innovations and the creation of steam-powered locomotives, the development of trains as public carriers of passengers and freight, brought forth the railroad. The railroad industry changed the nature of production because it became an important energy source that replaced human and animal power. Due to the important role of the railroads, workers became more productive, items were being shipped more quickly, and resources were becoming available to everyone including the working and middle class and not only the wealthy. The railroads became to be known as one of the biggest leaps of transportation in history. This is because it set up the next fifty years of America’s prosperity. The railroads became extremely popular and useful during the 1800’s to millions of people and other large companies. Although there were many indu...
Since the 19th century, industrialization has had positive and negative effects on the live of workers. Industrialization is the process of modernization and mass production of most goods. This also includes but not limited to mining and the forging of iron. An area where industrialization had a massive effect was in Eastern Europe. It emerged as a need to modernize and unify Europe. Although Britain led industrialization at first, it quickly exploded from Spain all the way through Russia.
When the term “Globalization” is discussed, most academics, scholars, professionals and intellectuals attempt to define and interpret it in a summarized fashion. My main concern with this approach is that one cannot and should not define a process that altered decades of history and continues to, in less than 30 words. Global Shift is a book with remarkable insight. Peter Dicken rather than attempting to define the commonly misused word, explains Globalization in a clear and logical fashion, which interconnects numerous views. Dicken takes full advantage of his position to write and identify the imperative changes of political, economic, social, and technological dimensions of globalization.
The common reason given by US companies for outsourcing India is high quality and low cost. However, there is criticism that perceived job losses in the US is due to outsourcing and something has to be done to prevent jobs from disappearing to India.
With the liberalization of state policy, there is a radical change in the approach of
In order to argue the positives and negatives of a broad and subjective term such as “industrialisation”, one must first define the terminology. The standard definition would allude to a “period of social and economic change”, the “Industrial Revolution”, which occurred from the 1760s onwards, to the mid-19th century. This move from an agrarian to an industrial society brought both positive and negative effects on the lifestyle of British people, from all backgrounds. Scientific advances in mass production and agriculture caused an expanding capital stock. Urban Britain soon became the factory of the world, with changes to health, housing and real wages seen at all levels of society.
And small businesses start failing as they are unable to compete with larger companies. Another shortfall is that traditional and cultural values of that area start to decrease, also impacting the tourism rates in the country. And some of the disadvantages are that; the cost of living increases greatly, holiday homes are bought in such areas and have no occupants for most of the year. There will also be a decrease in the use of public transport, which will disadvantage the elderly who are unable to drive to certain places and public transport drivers and owners. Smaller/local businesses are forced to close down as they are no longer needed or used by the