The Other Side.

“Globalization could be the answer to many of the world’s seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.” – Sharan Burrow, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)

We all tend to hear the term ‘globalization’ and think solely of the economics that [...]

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The Children of Globalization

The Children of Globalization
Outsourcing Concerns and the Fate of the Next Generation
“I think there’s going to be an enormous shift of occupations. Most jobs are going to change. They’ll survive, but they’ll change.” – Alvin Toffler
It’s a fairly common notion that our children are our future. We raise them, nurture them, and educate them, [...]

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Moving out.

“Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology,” according to the website globalization101.org, a project of the Levin Institute of the State University of New York (SUNY). This definition wraps up a serious, [...]

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Welcome. Bienvenue. Bienvenidos.

You are reading the opening post of the City High Seventh Hour Globalization Blog, created for the Miske-Cochran Modern Problems Class, as an assignment for the final semester of the 2007-2008 school year.
In case you couldn’t tell, our topic for this semester is globalization. That is, we will be discussing, in a series of blog [...]

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