WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: World Economy, North American Free Trade Agreement, Disconnection
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We don"t think about how much work, how many connections simple actions, like turning on a kettle, have in their history. Global/world market factory: factories that are producing goods that are first and foremost for the export/global market. Tied to labour intensive work, assembly line fordism. Economies of scale: largescale production allows low price for manufactured goods, workers have stability, and wages were high. Manufactured goods are garment labour force in canada is tiny, approximately 44000 people. Not only does each person do a different part, parts can be spread out all over the world, production is globally fragmented. Could be a company with factories all over the world, or can be placing orders at places all over the world owning no factories. Countries ban unions, offer no taxes, prey on cheap labour, often zones near a port, an airport etc. Referred to as maquiladoras; border toesn in mexico, an attempt to keep mexican workers in mexico (border industrialization programme)
