with and appreciate the facilitation that the media provide in the process of the evolution
of globalization. There is, for that matter, an acknowledged engendering of the
connectivity of one remote end of the earth to the other through the acceleration of
information transmission. The acceleration of information transmission, both visual and
audio, has also impacted on how capital/ business, culture, politics and current affairs are
generally accessed and responded to by all parties: individuals, governments, groups,
corporations etc. Put another way, the acceleration of information transmission has also
meant the acceleration of the flow of capital, people, images, ideologies. Together with
all this, is an unprecedented culture of interdependence which cuts across spheres,
including the consistently historical as politics and economy, needless to mention the
bourgeoning field of the ecological (Jonathan Xavier Inda and Renato Rosaldo 2008: 7-
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But Inda and Rosaldo reveal further that there is more to globalization than stressing the
acceleration of connectivity processes. This is when attention shifts more profoundly to
the temporal and special implications of time and how these serve to provide perspectives
on the dynamics of the connectivity. With globalization there is thus “a fundamental
reordering of time and space” (8). Drawing upon the theoretical antecedents of Harvey
and Giddens, they shed more light on the spatial-temporal concerns of globalization, and
in view of the relevance of the analysis to this chapter, it will be congenial to bring the
analysis into focus. Basically, by combining the views of both Harvey and Giddens we
arrive at a balanced impression of what globalization entails, at least in principle. For
instance, with Harvey there is an emphasis on the “time-space compression” in such a
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Yet, because as Avtar Brah (2002:30) rightly remarks, in view of the contradictions and complexities that
globalization dramatizes across regions and hemispheres, it is difficult to be “straightfordly” about
globalization. It is so precisely because of the problematic that the concept poses. This is also why one
must admit that even in Western Europe and North America protests, especially among labour unions,
abound over what citizens perceive to be the import not only of cheaps products (Duncan Green and
Matthew Griffith 2002:55), but also of cheap labour from Asia, Africa and South America (Owen Worth
2002:298). The situation results in the redundancy of local labour and a complication of the variables of
social security in these advanced countires where globalization is believed to be receiving highest
patronage and advocacy. This is why even where Helma Lutz (2002:89) has dealt with the
internationalization of domestic labour in Western Europe and the tavails of the imported labour from
Eastern Europe, South America and Asia, it is equally needful to remark that by virtue of such cheap labour
import, there is a sense in which it registers negatively on local labour.