Edexcel Geography A Level Globalisation

3. Growth of globalisation
1.Transport and trade in the nineteenth
and twentieth century
2.ICT and mobile communication use in
twenty first century.

4. 1. Transport and trade in the
nineteenth and twentieth century

5. How are trade and transport linked?
Trade
Transport

7. How are trade and transport linked?
Trade
Transport
Turn to p163

8. Why do companies employ people in
India or China and not the UK?
• Outsourcing has become very popular due to the
fact that production sites are cheaper and that
labour is cheaper.
• The quality of labour in counties like India is still
very high.
• This is called ‘the spatial division of labour’ (when a
company takes advantage of cheaper labour
elsewhere in the world). It can only happen as a
result of transport improvements.

9. What are some of the major
improvements in transport? (p164)
1. Steam
2. Railways
3. Jet Aircraft
E.g. The AirBus A380 can carry 487 passengers.
Watch here from 2.00 mins
4. Container Ships
Intermodal containers being moved without
the cargo being emptied.

10. What has caused the world to shrink?

11. Heightened
connectivity
has changed
the world –
the ‘shrinking
world’ effect.

12. Shrinking World
• As travel time falls due to new inventions and
communication networks improve, it makes people
feel closer together.
• This perceptual change is called the shrinking world
or time-space compression.

13. 2. ICT and mobile communication use
in twenty first century. (p165)
• Technology has helped to make the world feel much
smaller than it is. These include;
1. Telephone and the telegraph
2. Broadband and fibre optics
3. GIS and GPS
4. The Internet
5. Electronic Banking
At the push of a few buttons people can move money around
the world. Companies with apps like PayPal allow money to be
transferred around the world quickly and easily.
M-Pesa here