Study on the global factories in the sociological literature

The topic of economic globalization has fascinated social scientists for several decades. In fields as diverse as anthro-pology and economics, theorists have debated whether trade liberalization, transnational capital flows and transnational production networks are good for development and civilization. Over the years, polemics have emerged on both sides of the platform. Neo-liberal economists assert that economic integration is a preeminent source of development and stabilization. Conversely, leftist intellectuals decry global integration as a process that halts development and lets wealthy nations and powerful corporations extract and appropriate resources and labor from poorer countries. While debates on global integration frequently involve discussion of nations, cultures, factories and households, it is possible to reframe these questions so that they focus more on individuals. Global integration is not merely participation in the world economic system— the act of sewing or assembling goods—instead, it can be thought of as the state of being globalized, both in terms of work-force participation and cognitive sense making, the process by which workers in glob-ally- integrated workspaces make sense of their roles within them. Furthermore, integration can be evaluated in terms of the quality of global economic information workers posses, the way they acquire it, and how this information is used. By considering globalization in such a light, we establish not just the mere ―fact‖ of integration, but also the ―de-gree‖ of integration that exists in a locality and the variety of responses to it.