Globalization, through TC growth, outsourcing and the international division of labor
leads to social unevenness. Enabled by transportation technologies and ICT employment grows
in nation states where jobs go and temporal or short-term unemployment grows in nation states
where jobs are outsourced. This short-term unemployment reduces people’s quality of life.
Giddens says that:
There has undoubtedly taken place a major expansion of global
interdependence in the division of labor since the Second World War. This
has helped to bring about shifts in the worldwide distribution of
production, including the deindustrialization of some regions in the
developed countries and the emergence of the Newly Industrializing
Countries in the Third World (Giddens 1990, p. 76).