Competing Perspectives

on Global Divide
• Rostow’s Evolutionary Ladder of
Development
5 The age of high mass consumption
4 The drive to maturity: economic and cultural
factors lead to increasing prosperity for all
3 Take-off: high economic growth and
investment in infrastructure begins
2 Pre-conditions for take-off: the West assists
development through aid and industrial
investment
1 Traditional society: poverty, primary
production and traditional

Competing
values

Perspectives on Global
Divide
2. Dependency Theory
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It is a counterargument to the
modernization theory
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According to dependency scholars,
industrial capitalism brings
exploitation
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Furthermore, poor societies are not born
but made, as local
economies are distorted in that they serve
mostly the needs of
advanced countries instead of local
Case Study 3.
populations

“Endo”, Globalization
and the South
“End all forms of contractualization”. These
posters express denunciation of contractual
labor as a form of employment practice in
the Philippines. “Endo”, or end of contract,
exists when employers hire workers and
then terminate their contracts after five
months to avoid regularizing them.
According to the law, an employee who has
been working for a company for six months
should be regularized unless the individual
is not eligible to be a regular employee.
Endo is a labor flexibilization practice
designed to attract investors through cheap
labor costs.