Theme 3: Globalization Produces Winners and Losers

Globalization has not benefited everyone equally. Chinese factory workers, Indian software engineers, and the global financial elite have benefited disproportionately. Western working-class manufacturing workers have benefited least or experienced decline. The political reactions to globalization in many democracies are partly responses to these uneven gains. Maria should be able to evaluate claims about globalization's benefits and costs with specificity.