OAC World Issues
Unit 5
Industrialization and Geopolitical Issues

This unit is designed to explore some of the issues relating to industrialization, including the role of multi-national corporations as engines of economic imperialism. The concept of Geopolitics will also be explored, as the relationships between states is often based on geographical realties and concerns.

Learn why countries fight wars, and how to win them.

Unit Assignments

Rostow
Read the text, pp. 248-250.
Answer the questions on page 251, #1a, 1b, 3, 4a and 4b.
For question 4, you will be assigned a specific region which will correspond to the region from which you will choose a country to represent in the trade conference seminar.


Triangular Graphs
   Using the appendix of your text, fill in the chart with the statistics on types of industry for various countries.
   Complete a triangle graph which shows the breakdown of employment in each economic sector, agrarian, manufacturing and services, for each of countries in the chart.
   When you have completed the graph, circle the groups of countries that appear.
   Using the same countries as in part A, construct a scattergraph, including a line of best fit, to indicate the relationship between labour force engaged in agricultural activity and female literacy percentages.
   Answer the following questions:(2 marks each)

  1. Describe the pattern made by the triangle graph. Can you suggest any reasons for these patterns?
  2. What does the distribution of dots tell you about the nature of economic development?
  3. Describe the pattern made by the scattergraph. Is it weak or strong?
  4. How useful is the percent of labour in agricultural industry as an indictor of economic growth?
  5. What changes occur as a country develops?
  6. Bonus: Do a Phi Coefficient

·  10 marks - Triangle graph

·  10 marks - Scattergraph

·  10 marks - Questions

·   2 marks - Cover page

·   3 marks - Neatness


Child Labour
   One of the key issues relating to Industrialization is that of child labour. First world countries, such as Canada, enjoy the luxury of laws which protect children from work place exploitation while providing publicly-funded education. However, in many third world countries children do not receive the same rights.
   Is there a solution to this issue? Can the solution be proactive, rather than reactive? That is, can it be a solution that meets the issue head on and attempts to solve it at its core, providing for alternatives that replace child labour with something more positive? Or are we destined to simply respond to news of child labour in a negative manner, calling punishments which do little to solve the problem, and end up only further impoverishing an already desperately poor nation?

  1. Read the article which discusses the case of rug manufacturing in Mirzapur, India.
  2. Using the article as a primary source, and drawing upon what you know of child labour and issue analysis, write a suitably long essay which attempts to provide solutions to the issue of child labour.
  3. Your essay should include, but is not limited to, the following:
       - a summary of the issue
       - a consideration of the conditions which allow for and propagate child labour
       - an accounting of possible solutions to the child labour, both reactive and proactive
       - a plan of action which could begin to address the problem
       - responsibilities of:
          * the country which uses child labour
          * the importing country
          * consumers
  4. Remember, you are writing from a first world point of view, but you do not have unlimited resources. A strong essay will temper its solutions with reality.
  5. While Mirzapur, India, will be your primary focus, feel free to use other cases and countries where appropriate.

   How you plan and write this essay is entirely up to you. You may use any resource you like. The essay itself should be an organized and literate presentation of that outline. The essay will be marked as follows:

·  Content 15 marks
   - issue definition
   - pros/cons of various solutions
   - plan of action
   - basis in reality

·  Organization 10 marks
   - overall structure
   - clarity

·  Grammar 5 marks


Test Review

·  Introduction to Industrialization

·  Rostow's Theory of Economic Growth

·  Economic Theories

·  Japanese Trade Video

·  Multi-national corporations - structure, pros and cons

·  Child Labour

·  The Global Economy

·  Geopolitics - text pp. 363-367

·  The United Nations, text pp. 380-83, p. 388

·  Global Conflict - notes

Test structure:

·  10 multiple guess

·  10 definitions - term or definition provided, choose the appropriate definition or term to match

·  article analysis - geopolitical event from the newspaper

·  short essay - 2 of 3 - based on assignments or actvities done in class

·  long essay - respond to 1 of 2 quotes regarding:
     - The United Nations
     - War
or
     - Multinational Corporations

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