Ch.23 p. 1137-1171 + visual source

Strayer explains accelerating global interaction in the 21st century as an increasingly dense web of political relationships, economic transactions, and cultural influences across the worlds many peoples, countries, and regions, binding them together more tightly, but also more contentiously. Strayer credits technology and growth as factors in the tightening of the dense web. Containerized shipping, huge oil tankers, and air express services dramatically lowered transportation costs, while fiber optic cables and later the Internet provided the communication infrastructure for global economic interaction. Issues of feminism or women's rights differed amount people and countries but some of degree of reform became part of counties as diverse as Moracco, Chile, and South Korea. Visual source : One visual source showed that globolization offered employment opportunities. This would be for people in developing countries and non developed. Companies in wealthier countries have often found it advantageous.