Document 6583913

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Create a list of your 10 favourite possessions.
Now try and identify where these things were
made.
In 1999, a French farmer named Jose Brown
drove a tractor through the front window of a
McDonald’s store. His arrest and trial in July
2000, attracted thousands of antiglobalisation protestors and reinvigorated the
feelings of local identity in the region (St
Pierre-de-Trivisy.)
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McDonalds is the largest and best known global food
service retailer with more than 28,000 restaurants in 120
countries. Yet on any day even as the market leader,
McDonalds serves less than 1% of the world’s population.
In order to increase its global market share, profitability
and customer satisfaction McDonalds must d make efforts
to meld its global culture with local demands, hence
McDonalds produces...
The McRendang in Malaysia
The McSpaghetti in the Phillipines
The Maharaja Mac in India
The McKrapow in Thailand
Kampong Burger in Singapore
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You lose your job in Bankstown, because the
company you work for has been bought out by
an Australian subsidiary of a US based company
that has decided to relocate its production of Tshirts to Mexico, because of cheaper wage costs
and lower health and safety standards.
Your boss offers you a new employment contract
with lower wages and conditions because the
firm has to compete with the cost of Chinese
workers
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Your sister is sacked from her hospital job
because of State Government cutbacks to
health services to balance the budget to meet
the demands of international credit rating
agencies.
You get skin cancer because of the hole in
the ozone layer created by the release of
chemicals by refrigerators and aerosol cans
all over the world.
You log onto the internet for information or
to go shopping
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Define globalisation in your own words.
List FIVE examples of how globalisation
effects you on a daily basis.
Create a timeline illustrating how global
linkages have changed throughout history.
As a class complete ‘Introduction’ to
globalisation from AusTrade CD-ROM.
Copy out figure (7.2) ‘the characteristics of
globalisation’ on page 201 of the text.