France, and bottled water from Scotland. Your wireless phone might have been made in Taiwan or Korea. The

clothes you wear might be designed in Italy and manufactured in China. The toys you give to a child might have

come from India. The car you drive might come from Japan, Germany, or Korea. The gasoline in the tank might

be refined from crude oil from Saudi Arabia, Mexico, or Nigeria. As a worker, if your job is involved with

farming, machinery, airplanes, cars, scientific instruments, or many other technology-related industries, the

odds are good that a hearty proportion of the sales of your employer—and hence the money that pays your

salary—comes from export sales. We are all linked by international trade, and the volume of that trade has

grown dramatically in the last few decades.

The first wave of globalization started in the nineteenth century and lasted up to the beginning of World War I.
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