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*High priest of globalization lashes out against the enemies of progress * We never really had a referendum on globalization in America. It just sort of happened. People had jobs one day, then the next morning they were fired, replaced by 14-year-olds in Indonesia or sweatshop laborers in Bangladesh <http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/14923/factory_collapse_in_bangladesh_shows_cracks_in_the_system>, working in unsafe hell-holes without overtime or health care, beaten when they don’t make quotas. <http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17833/holding_companies_accountable_sweatshops> What exactly does "raising your game" mean in the context of that sort of competition? Globalization in the snap of a finger essentially erased nearly two centuries of America's bloody labor history. It's as if the Thibodeaux Massacre, the hangings of the Molly McGuires, the Pullman Strike, the *L.A. Times* bombing, the Flint sit-in and thousands of other strikes and confrontations never took place. In the new paradigm, all of those agonizing controversies and wars of political attrition, which collectively produced a vast set of rules and standards for dealing with workers, were simply wiped away. http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/38448-thomas-friedman-goes-to-the-wall _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
