Global shift & Containerisation

Question 1

Global shift

Answer 1

filtering down on manufacturing industry from developed to lower wage economies

Question 2

International divisions of labour

Answer 2

1. Highly skilled- paid, decision-making, researcher + managerial occupations (HICs)
2. Unskilled- poorly paid assembly occupations (LIC’s)
   * Radical changes in the last 40 years= LIC’s developed their own industrial + commercial bases + their own TNCs which have spread globally
   * They are now a threat to HIC’s

Question 3

4 Asian Tiger economies

Answer 3

1. Hong Kong
2. Taiwan
3. Singapore
4. South Korea

Question 4

Impacts on HIC’s

Answer 4

+ Investment in tertiary sector
- Places like Docklands become run down
- Infrastructure not invested in- building run down
- Deindustrialisation
- Counterurbanisation
- Loss of jobs in HIC