Tom Lehman wrote: >>>> For the big industrial unions like the Steelworkers, which is a pretty diverse if not the most diverse union, the losses in jobs resulting from downsizing, globalization etc. have been particularly cruel to our Black membership. Because they and their children will never see union protected jobs again in the so-called brownfields areas. Good jobs to which they have had easy access. <<<< right: downsizing (broadly defined) hits the "last hired" (those with the least seniority) hardest. One of the reasons for increased inequality among wage earners is that there is a shrinking of the sector of the working class that is able to benefit from "good jobs" (the primary labor market jobs) so that more and more workers, including younger white workers, are crowded in the secondary labor markets. >>>> The whole question is where do you draw the line on globalization, and how do you combat globalization? <<<< I think a better question is how can we create a _better_ globalization rather than trying strategies that dump the costs on other nations' working classes via protectionism and the like? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html Bombing DESTROYS human rights. US/NATO out of Serbia!
