Globalisation means each country now has to find fields/products where they have a natural advantage, instead of trying to artificially support those industries where other countries can do it better.

Globalization has nothing to do with countries it has to do with corporations wrapping their tentacles around the world.

As far as countries and the people who live in them are concerned it's a race to the bottom. The only winners are corporate entities, and the few upper-echelon management humans at their helms.

In the US they used to bring out federal troops to break the unions and to enforce "corporate rights". The people stirred themselves and took back control of their government for a short while, now it's back to "normal".

The fight against institutions is perpetual. They take on a life of their own by co-opting the interests of those who work within and "manage" them and who depend on those institutions for their livelihood. Every generation must fight the same battles all over again... and it will always be this way, as far as I can see.