Well, Jim, if it's controls on capital flows. And you can combine that with an effort to educate and legislate controls right into the corporate charters of all corporations foreign, domestic and alien. Then you might have a chance of a "better" globalization. What we do here sets the standard for the rest of the world! On the subject of youth. It's sort of like the Canadian Steelworker told Doug Henwood's reporter, welcome to the wonderful world of minimum wage or something like that. Until people start demanding change and I mean demanding it from the politicians nothing is going to change. People are going to have to button-hole politicians of all parties from the local hack to as high as they can reach if they want real change---up close and very personal and not necessarily politically correct. 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!
