... longer need government approval to invest and are treated as domestic investors. NAFTA has also increased intellectual property rights and allowed companies to obtain patents in Mexico and Canada. In the past, companies were hesitant to export research and development intensive goods; with increased intellectual property protection, however, exports of these goods have shown a definite increase. As a result ... States. U.S. mills invest hundreds of millions of dollars to build plants in Mexico as an effect of the reduced tariffs and shipping time. It takes only eighteen hours to ship goo...

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... . While each of these issues, no matter how few or many protest them, hold importance, some are more convincing reasons for protest than others. The vast disparity in wealth between the upper class and the impoverished, and developed countries and developing is staggering. As globalization has continued, multinational corporations, foreign investors, and citizens of more powerful nations have entered ... against globalization, workers have not benefited from globalization, instead, they have lost. Women of the maquiladoras in Mexico, workers in the sweatshops in Indonesia, and the farme...

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... Claiborne jacket sown in El Salvador is paid just 74 cents - less than half of one per cent. In the US, the labour cost to sew a garment is typically 10 per cent of the retail price. Workers in poor countries may have to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week with few protections for health and safety. In some countries, globalisation leads ... ', as opposed to free trade'. Within richer countries, there is growing inequality as unfair competition from countries repressing workers' rights to organise pushes down the earnings of the less skilled sections of the workforce. The WTO is intere...

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