This source set uses Nike as a case study of globalization to examine the costs and benefits of a worldwide business as measured by the impact on the individual workers and the national economies involved.

Due to trade liberalization policies (the lowering of trade barriers between countries), along with advances in technology, communication, and transportation that speed up trade between countries, all economies throughout the world are more closely integrated with one another today than at any other time in the past. As part of understanding what globalization is, students consider the question: How does globalization affect international and national economies, and individuals?

This source set uses Nike as a case study of globalization to examine the costs and benefits of a worldwide business as measured by the impact on the individual workers and the national economies involved.