EQ2: Impacts of globalisation on countries, people, cultures and the environment Typeit

The movement of manufacturing industry from Europe and North America to Asia is known as .  This process has led to changes in both developed and countries with a mixture of winners and losers.  In the developed countries the winners have been US technology businesses who wanted their devices manufactured more cheaply such as or textile companies such as .  This has also benefited their employees who work in the sector.  These jobs are better paid than in secondary industry and have better working conditions. Other winners have been residents in previously industrial cities where the reduction of emissions like has occurred.  This means there are fewer respiratory problems in the population such as .  There has also been a decrease in the impacts of acid rain, which is formed when rain mixes with .  This was causing forest destruction in countries in North America and Northern Europe such as  in the past.  With the movement of industry comes the movement of people to fill the jobs created.  This has triggered rural–urban migration in merging and developing nations as people are forced out of rural areas and attracted to urban areas through a range of factors known as .  People are also migrating across national boundaries, such as the movement of doctors or financial workers known as  migration, but equally the race to the bottom to find workers who will work for the lowest wages in industries such as  where qualifications or speaking the local language may not be necessary. Some of the losers from the globalisation process are those who do not benefit from the accumulation of wealth by large and may be exploited by poor terms and conditions of employment or those where their environment is degraded by pollution due to poor environmental legislation.  These groups often campaign as a broad group of people whose political stance is .