Mobile phones

• Primary Sector:Democratic Republic of Congo: Coltan:Mined
• Secondary:Mobile Phones&Batteries: Made.
• Tertiary:Tv adverts:Made.
• Quatarnery:Research& development:Takes place.

• TNC-Firm:Owns& controls production facilities:Two or more countries
• Product-Totality:Goods/ services makes companies available.
• Service: Supplier:Public communication & transportation
• Consumption: Using up:Goods & services; having exchangeable value.
• Primary: Getting raw material from natural enviroment: Mining.
• Secondary: Making things (manufactoring).
• Tertiary:Providing services: Teaching & Nursery.
• Gdp- Figure has been divided by:number of people:Country
• Employment Structure: %: People working: different types of jobs.
• Trade Balance:Country's exports minus imports; largest components: country's balance of payments.
  

• Informal Employment
• $200 a Month
• Rsk-Cave-ins
• Health Problems for Coltan Miners: Exhaustion & Various Illnesses
• Many women & Children in mines: 30%: Aged 12 & above mining industry.
• Reduction ; people working in agriculture: Untended fields & loss of livestock( Cows, Pigs)

• Ten dedious hours at times; 6 days a week.
• 1.12 an hour
• Entry-level Salary:$180 a month
• Workes charged £11 a month: Share dormitry with seven other workers; have to pay 50 pence of rice dish in cafateria.
• Repetitive work.

• £1250 a month: Part- time Work
• Enviromental law protects workers:Working Many hours & being fired for no reason
• Nice Working Conditions

• Farmers In India can get information about: Crop Volumes, Weather Forecasts, Market Via thier Phones, can earn greater prices.
• Mobile Phones in Africa: Support Small bussiness & arrange transactins: Involve making long journeys.
• Usage of Phones: African Countries: Infrastructure of roads: Poorly developed; reduces need: Travel long distance
• Mobile phone uses in Africa:  Resulted: Changes: Banking; Used to organise &  co-ordinate small- time loans.

• Tarrifs-Official league table showing:Duties/ customs imposed by government on imports/ exports.
• Subsides:Government payment:Supports Business/ market
•   Quota: Share or proportional part of total; required from, or due or belongs to, a particular district, state, person, group, etc.
• Interdependence: The quality or condition of being interdependent, or mutually reliant on each other. Why is shenzen used for the secondary sector of IPhones?
  • Has its own stock exchange; head quaters: High-Tech Companies

Mobile phones are transported by ship form china to the Uk; they are put in containers, then loaded in stacks on the ship;

When the ships are loaded the containers will be put onto a lorry, so that the phones can be taken from the shortest distance to the warehouse.

• Ethical Consumerism- Consumers: Make decision:Purchase Things; made in a way: Minimises social & Enviromental Damage.
• Most workers work 12 hrs a day
• Foxconn, workers are subjected to long hours, non-existent social link and little to no privacy coupled with low wages.
• Workers are not allowed to have phones or visits from their family.  They also have to sleep in small rooms with six other strangers and must also pay for the room.
• In the middle of a Chinese summer day, the assembly line’s room temperature can spike up to 95degrees Fahrenheit. 
• Poor ventilation and the buildup of aluminum dust led to an explosion that killed two workers and injured more than seventy workers (Weir).
•   While they are working, workers are not allowed to speak a single word to one another.

• Miners are paid $5 (£3.35) a day.
  • Accidents:Common:DRC mines; seven workers killed:Small coltan excavation sites.
  • Children as young as 10 can be found working at mines across the DRC.
    • Children :Regularly forcibly recruited ; work in the coltan mines ; are guarded at gunpoint: Militia groups that have forced them into mining.
    • Mining process &slurry from  process: Contaminates  water supply; is harmful to entire ecosystem.
    • Mining process poses  direct threat to  environment via the destruction of stream beds  surrounding forest.
    • Farmers: Forced off Land.
    • Oxfam:Claimed Coltan:Toxic