From the perspective of the average American, globalization is a win-win situation for everyone involved. But we fail to see the other end of this situation, where lower-class families around the world face hardship. In countries like Indonesia and India, American companies deliberately set up factories and take advantage of the people by paying them less than minimum wage to produce their products. Families are forced to send their children to work in these factories in order to earn enough money to survive. When there is just enough money to put food on the table, living conditions are poor and necessities such as clean water are not as available as they are for us Americans. In other countries like Colombia, drug trafficking is widespread everywhere and is used as a source of income for many farmers who only want to produce to earn money so their families can prosper. The US government is giving billions in aid to find a different crop to use, but nothing is being accomplished as drug shipments continue to arrive in America and pharmaceutical crops are still being produced. If we are ever to make globalization beneficial for all, there must be a universal effort to employ laws to protect the lower class who cannot afford to protect themselves. American companies deliberately manufacture their products in other countries, such as India, because their labor practices do not meet American standards and can easily be manipulated to maximize profit. By paying their employees extremely low wages, they are still able to produce their products. As a result, they make more profits that do not need to be returned to their employees because minimum wage laws are not in effect in these countries. In “Distributional effects of globalization...... middle of article ......lar.November 2011Javdani, Marie. Plata o Plomo: Silver or Lead. Kennedy, Kennedy and Aaron .402-405 Kennedy, XJ, Kennedy, DM and Jane E. Aaron, eds. The Brief Bedford Reader. 11th edition. Boston: Bedford, 2012 Divakaruni, Chitra. Live free and starve. Kennedy, Kennedy and Aaron .396-398. Kennedy, XJ, Kennedy, DM and Jane E. Aaron, eds. The Brief Bedford Reader. 11th edition. Boston: Bedford, 2012 Kentor, Jeffrey. “Long-term effects of globalization on income inequality, population growth and economic development”. Social Problems Vol. 48, no. 4, November 2001. 435-455. Ravallion, M. (2003), The debate on globalization, poverty and inequality: why measurement matters. International Affairs, 79: 739-753. do I: 10.1111/1468-2346.00334