Hey, Jimmy D., your the Ph.D., you tell me. How are you going to have a "better" globalization? A realistically enforceable one with labor and environmental standards that protect people. Controls on the movement of capital? Your email pal, Tom L. Jim Devine wrote: > 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!
