Wednesday, February 18, 2026

     These two chapters, to me, just digs a little deeper on how globalization effects other countries through global corporations and the effects it has on the global economy with years of big corporations participating in globalization and spreading their manufacturing plants. In chapter 20 Fallows explained how China's rapid growth economically reshaped their countries society and presence in the global economy. Over decades the city of Shenzhen has helped China grow their society and economy because big corporations are able to find cheap labor and find a factory that can make their product. Since multiple million dollar companies keep going into china to produce their product, it helped China growth in the technology they produced, the expansion of manufacturing plants, and better infrastructure. This chapter also speaks about how China gaining more power with manufacturing is effecting the people that live there. The people that work at those manufacturing plants have to take long drives to get to work, work long hours, and don't get paid good at all. Chapter 21 mainly explains how global commodities work. This chapter explains how companies like NIKE and Reebok maximize profits by outsourcing their materials, getting the product made for cheap in another country. They also maximize profits by learning and targeting groups of people. For example NIKE's biggest spending group is teenagers, so they make and target to sell their shoes to teens. Those companies are also in control of advertising and marketing which is also another way NIKE targets a certain group of buyers to maximize profits while cutting costs on where its made and how much it costs to make it.

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