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Globalization is nothing more than a trade war with production looking for a country cheaper to produce. And the war has expanded from trade to production, research, technology, techniques, jobs, payrolls -- the economy. Every nation struggles in the economy war to maintain and build its economy -- except the United States. In the Jan. 7 debate in New Hampshire, Gov. Jon Huntsman exclaimed: "We don't want to start a trade war." Japan started the trade war after World War II by closing its market, subsidizing its manufacture, selling its exports at cost, making up the profit in its closed market -- making Toyota No. 1 as General Motors went broke. In the same debate, Gov. Mitt Romney exclaimed: "We've got to stop China from stealing our jobs." China steals intellectual property -- not jobs. President Obama and Congress do the "stealing" by continuing the tax benefit to offshore jobs. Corporate America invests in China because there are no labor, safety or environmental concerns. If you make a profit, you pay no corporate tax unless profits are repatriated. Just reinvest for more profit. If not profitable, walk away with no legacy cost. Facing this kind of competition in globalization, the U.S. must develop an economy attractive to invest and protect the investment.

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What is globalization ? Globalization broadly refers to the expansion of global linkages, the organization of social life on a global scale, and the growth of a global consciousness, hence to the consolidation of world society. Such an ecumenical definition captures much of what the term commonly means, but its meaning is disputed. It encompasses several large processes; definitions differ in what they emphasize. Globalization is historically complex; definitions vary in the particular driving force they identify. The meaning of the term is itself a topic in global discussion; it may refer to "real" processes, to ideas that justify them, or to a way of thinking about them. The term is not neutral; definitions express different assessments of global change. Among critics of capitalism and global inequality, globalization now has an especially pejorative ring.

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Tens of thousands of American Airlines employees are on edge, waiting to find out if they will lose their jobs. The airline said Wednesday that it needs to cut 13,000 positions in order to survive, and the plan includes outsourcing some maintenance work. For years, American Airlines and its unions bragged that they were the only ones to still do most of their own maintenance. Nick Soldevere has been working as an aircraft maintenance crew chief at DFW International Airport. “We do pride ourselves on our maintenance work,” he said. But that pride has since turned to fear for Soldevere and thousands of his American Airlines co-workers. “Right now, the level of concern is very high.” After years of doing a majority of its jet maintenance in-house, American Airlines has proposed cutting 4,600 mechanics system-wide, including a complete closure of its heavy maintenance facility at Fort Worth’s Alliance Airport. The airline wants to outsource a portion of that work.

The benefits of global integration have been associated with unprecedented leaps in human development indicators. Technological innovation has accelerated integration both virtually, through the development of fiber optics, the internet and mobile telephony, as well as physically with vast improvements in transport and infrastructure. The spread of people, ideas, trade and the inspiring education revolution has and will continue to offer enormous potential for poverty alleviation and economic opportunity. Yet the downside to globalization is that of increased inequality between and within countries. And the second "side effect" is that the likelihood of increasing numbers of global shocks and crises is growing, as is our vulnerability to them. Little is understood about the risks associated with large-scale system interdependencies. Well beyond purely the financial arena, new systemic risks loom large in areas such as climate change, water and food insecurity, pandemics, resource scarcity, antibiotic resistance, bioterrorism, cybersecurity and supply chain vulnerability.

Advantages of Globalization Goods and people are transported with more easiness and speed the possibility of war between the developed countries decreases free trade between countries increases global mass media connects all the people in the world as the cultural barriers reduce, the global village dream becomes more realistic there is a propagation of democratic ideals the interdependence of the nation-states increases as the liquidity of capital increases, developed countries can invest in developing ones the flexibility of corporations to operate across borders increases the communication between the individuals and corporations in the world increases environmental protection in developed countries increases

So, what is outsourcing? Outsourcing is contracting with another company or person to do a particular function. Almost every organization outsources in some way. Typically, the function being outsourced is considered non-core to the business. An insurance company, for example, might outsource its janitorial and landscaping operations to firms that specialize in those types of work since they are not related to insurance or strategic to the business. The outside firms that are providing the outsourcing services are third-party providers, or as they are more commonly called, service providers.Although outsourcing has been around as long as work specialization has existed, in recent history, companies began employing the outsourcing model to carry out narrow functions, such as payroll, billing and data entry. Those processes could be done more efficiently, and therefore more cost-effectively, by other companies with specialized tools and facilities and specially trained personnel.Currently, outsourcing takes many forms. Organizations still hire service providers to handle distinct business processes, such as benefits management. But some organizations outsource whole operations. The most common forms are information technology outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO).

Prior to offshore outsourcing, U.S. employees were shielded against low-wage foreign labor. Americans worked with more capital and better technology, and their higher productivity protected their higher wages. Outsourcing forces Americans to “compete head-to-head with foreign workers” by “undermining U.S. workers’ primary competitive advantage over foreign workers: their physical presence in the U.S.” and “by providing those overseas workers with the same technologies.” The result is a lose-lose situation for American employees, American businesses and the U.S. government. Outsourcing has brought record unemployment in engineering fields and a major drop in university enrollments in technical and scientific disciplines. Even many of the remaining jobs are filled by lower-paid foreigners brought in on H-1b and L-1 visas. American employees are discharged after being forced to train their foreign replacements.

The present era is said to be an age of globalization. Globalization is a broad term and encompasses varied perspectives. It refers to the global outlook of different nations of the world coming closer and joining hands in terms of economy, education, society and politics. Globalization empowers a view for the entire world as a whole irrespective of the national identity and thus globalization has narrowed the world by bringing people of all nations closer (What is globalization?). Enabling people of one nation to communicate with those of the other nation(s) is the biggest achievement in terms of globalization and development. The culture, trade, business, ethics and conduct of one group in one part of the world can influence others may or may not be of same nation. It is irrespective of the time and space and language bindings as these communications are in terms of trade, social internet forums. The process of globalization is therefore, an amalgamation of interaction and integration among different groups of people, various organizations and governments of different nations. This communication is supported by information technology (What is globalization?). The interaction not only influences people and their welfare in terms of civilization, traditions, political structure, financial growth and affluences but also affects the environment as a whole (What is globalization?).

In order to cut down costs, many firms in developed nations have outsourced their manufacturing and white-collar jobs to Third-World countries like India and China, where the cost of labor is low. The most prominent among these have been jobs in the customer service field as many developing nations have a large English-speaking population - ready to work at one-fifth of what someone in developed world may call 'low-pay'. This has caused a lot of resentment among the people of developed countries, and companies have been accused of taking their jobs away. Another problem is that many Americans are not satisfied with the level of customer service that they are subjected to, and this has caused a lot of animosity among people and has added to the dissent that people already have against outsourcing.

Despite the orthodoxy that outsourcing produces financial savings, the outsourcing industry giants can offer little evidence to support their claims. The same is true of the Government departments who suggest outsourcing will generate savings but then can’t identify these supposed savings on any public accounts. We have had the scandal of re-financing in PFI deals and contractors seeking profits with supposed ‘contract variations’ but it is interesting that even in the area of insurance costs the public purse is left with hidden costs as contractors fail to take risks associated with public serviced delivery.

No company should get a tax break for outsourcing jobs. Instead, tax breaks should go to manufacturers who set up shop here at home. Bigger tax breaks should go to high-tech manufacturers who create the jobs of the future

The Indian IT sector, which gets 60 per cent of its export revenue from the US, has come out strongly against US moves to stop outsourcing.

"Meanwhile, America is more productive than ever. And companies like Boeing are realising that even when we can't make things cheaper than China, we can make things better. That's how we're going to compete globally," Obama said. Obama said Boeing's business right now is booming. Last year, orders for commercial aircraft rose by more than 50 per cent.

This is purely theoretical, though. In practice, powerful nations can come to control less powerful ones through conquest, either economic or military. In the age of globalization

, labor has become the comparative advantage of less prosperous nations. This is one of the reasons why so many jobs that once belonged to Americans go to China and India, Vietnam and Mexico–their laborers will work for less.

environmental sustainability

Again, inability to find work means inability to purchase homes, spend money, and profit companies

greater desire to outsource to make things more cheaply so they will be more attractive to consumers.

Further, many argue that giving jobs to workers in less developed countries improves those countries economically and increases trade for US products.

This article is concerned with the engagement of leisure studies as an academic field and as organized, professional intervention with the phenomenon of globalization, using the exemplificatory case of the World Leisure and Recreation Association’s (now World Leisure’s) Sao Paulo Declaration on Leisure and Globalization as a point of reference. Deploying a combination of globalization theory and ‘autoethnographic’ research in relation to instances of mediated leisure culture, it reflects on conceptual imprecision and potential contradictions in the Declaration as indicative of wider problems in the disciplinary field. Leisure studies researchers are enjoined to avoid complicity in promoting both dystopian and utopian versions of globalization theory, and sceptically to assess the complex interaction of globalizing and other macro/micro processes. The article concludes by arguing for a wide‐ranging, critically reflexive leisure studies research agenda supported by principled strategic interventions in leisure power relations.

Growth of scientific literature remains strong, while the world of science continues to flatten

Growth in the number of U.S. papers was a more modest 33,000, or 19%, from 178,000 in 1988 to 211,000 in 2003. From 1991 to 2002, there was no sustained growth. Annual totals held at between 194,000 and 203,000 and were at 196,000 for 2002. The 2003 total moved up to 211,000 for the biggest annual gain in many years.

The data on the papers in ACS journals come from a program that has expanded from 19 journals in 1988 to 33 in 2005 and so have a substantially higher growth rate than for chemistry itself.