globalization

[monsivais]

Globalization is inevitable, what can be done to regulate globalization, dumping, and low wages due to the competition of work from immigrants?

[Gromit]

There is no connection between Globalisation and economic migrants.

If your question relates to the UK, then the eastern european migrants only come here because there are jobs that need to be filled. The jobs tend to be low paid by UK standards, but are quite acceptible to your average Pole. We currently have nearly a million people unemployed, yet employers have difficulty filling some vaccancies. I would suggest that you should aim your indignation not at migrants who just want to work and feed their families, but at the the million or so of Britains who will not work and prefer to take benefits instead.

[kwicky]

If wages are so low in their host country why not set up factories, etc there and benefit that country as well. This was done successfully in India, why not elsewhere?

[jno]

that's been done for some time now, but of course if (say) China produces clothes cheaply, then other countries will try to keep them out, with import duties, to protect the local industries producing more expensive clothes.

So what globalisation means isn't that the workers come here, it's that the work goes there.

[andynunn]

the reason poles can afford to work over here for the minimum wage is because they have their accomodation provided for them, so unlike the indigenous people they do not pay as much rent, therefore the minimum wage is acceptable, also it saves our employers the expense of having to train british workers, lets just let semi third world goverments pay for it, its basically another form of exploiting poor countries, dressed up as ethics, millions of british who won't work is a lie, its not economically viable for them to work for 5.35 an hour, thats 178 pound a week, average rent 100 pound a week, council tax 20 pound a week, leaving the brits with just 58 pound to pay for everything else. plus the poles are not living here permanently so they do not mind living in tents, caravans for the duration of their employment, this is being caused by corporations its about creating a massive surplus workforce in the west which enables them to bring wages down, there is only one antidote to globalisation and that is nationalism.