Question in (sociology of poverty)
Perspectives of poverty
Question 7 from from Lectures and Today’s Globalization
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Question 7
What is new about today’s globalization- especially the technology of production, communication and distribution? How does this impact our lives- the political economy of the wages, market system; culture, ideology and the media: politics and structures of social control and domination?
Globalization + Technology
Labor is an economy that produces new value
Drives true production of goods and services
Brings efficiency but brings downfalls for middle class and poor
Developed countries shift from mass labor to highly skilled labor
Increasing automation in workplace
Need for human labor is declining because of technology and changing communication and distribution
Digitized communication
Transnational corporations becomes stronger than nation states and exerts control over the state
Technology is a “tool”- it is not new just in a different form
It expands the world economy and homogenize it (integrate the world)
Tasks time are shortened
Corporations Increased Influence
Instantaneous flow of money from one nation state to another
Flow of goods and services and migration of labor (outsourcing)
Mechanization reduce or eliminate production by manual labor
Distribution of goods and services can use less workers
Leaving behind proletariats
Right wing American leaders eliminates concessions and reforms for equal employment and social advancement
Cut of benefits, affirmative action, food stamps, etc. which effect the middle and working class
Increased profits- right of profit over right for human life
Neoliberal policies and becoming integrated
Corporations Increased Influence
Period of economic retraction
Mega corporations are expanding and becoming richer with globalization
NAFTA and WTO superseded nation state boarders with new global policies forcing nations to adhere to global terms
Media, politics, structures of social control is effected
Changing the Future
World of abundance and big corporations, there is no reason any country should be impoverished
Only going into places where it can maximize profits
Companies lack morals and people are suffering
There should be no reason for homelessness, nor lack of medical, environmental issues
In capitalistic society there is a need for profit
Focus on conscious movement and bottom up leadership
Must have leaders from all classes of society
Focus on humankind and not profit
Need education for all
Technology with distribution of goods and services with profits shared
Media and global corporations need to help
Need to form a genuine movement