Global Stratification- A Socio

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By: James Cory E-mail: captainobvious@rocketmail.com The industrialization and technology of the world’s higher income nations has a negative effect on the plight of the world’s poorer nations. The high-income nations’ industrialization encourages child labor, poor living conditions in exchange for material things, and higher world pollution. When the higher income nations became industrialized in the 1800’s, the lower income nations were slow to catch up. Now, the low and middle-income countries are trying to catch up to the rapid growth that the world powers had. One drawback to this is many families, to earn as much money as possible, encourage their children to go to work in sweat shops, for little pay. This puts them at a great risk of accident, and ...

... rule. However, in many middle and low-income countries the people lack the knowledge or resources to effective birth control, and many children for each family is standard. If the population growth continues, there is going to be a substantial lack of food resources for all of the world’s population. If all of the societies in the world were as advanced as the United States, the world would be different in many aspects. The technology that could be created by the resources of all of the world’s people (as opposed to just a few rich in the high-income countries) could possibly solve many of the world’s problems, including pollution, overpopulation, and nuclear proliferation. If all of

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