... the long term competitiveness upon which future prosperity hinges. Globalization imposes a major challenge, particularly when seen under the light of China's WTO membersip. A driving force behind globalization is the widespread use of e-commerce over the Internet. According to industry estimates, the value of e-business amounted to $43 billion in 1998 and is expected to mount to US$1.3 trillion by 2003. Hong ... world exports and imports will double within five years . This doubling in China's share in the world's external trade will be complemented by an opening to the world of large s...

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... increases in productivity, surplus income and output. This new system led to surplus income being invested in the privately run town or village enterprises for light manufacturing. Young workers were now offered a contract system of employment instead of the previous lifetime assignment to a production unit. Permission to start small businesses such as restaurants and shops were now given to families and individuals. The ... , inadequate transport, energy shortages, poorly developed schools and hospitals and much more. These problems are a universal consequence being faced due to Asian-s...

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... way. However, not everybody saw industrialization in a good light, for it deeply affected those who had a stake in the traditional economy. One of the industries that experienced those changes the most was the business of shoemaking in Lynn. Previous to the introduction of the original sewing machines, which are now universally used ... branch he was put at and stayed there unless changed. Of course, he could learn his portion very rapidly, for he was only responsible for that specific one. Doing the same thing all the time leads to expertise and speed, and that is what employers were l...

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... . They are less concerned with supporting worker rights in poor countries than they are with protecting declining industries in rich ones. Anti-globalisation Globalisation results in the exploitation of millions of workers in countries that do not give workers rights to organise. For example, a woman who sows a $200 Liz Claiborne jacket sown in El Salvador is paid ... concern that the world's corporate and political leadership is undertaking a restructuring of global politics and economics that may prove as historically significant as any event since the Industrial Revolution. This restr...

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