The Boston Review has an outstanding forum led by Dean Baker with commentary from several other economists about how globalization is a series of political decisions that sought to protect the wealthy from competition while subjecting the poor to a global race to the bottom....
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As I have been saying, even though we are facing a government of deplorables led by likely Attorney General Nathan Bedford Forrest and are naturally going.
Yes, another post on trade policy and global labor rights that will be sure to get me into the LGM Top 10 posts of 2017! This essay on the relationship.
United Steelworkers president Leo Gerard makes a good point about how Trump's political rhetoric about "bringing American jobs home" completely contradicts actual Republican policy. Will it matter when Trump's promises are proven lies? That American-job-creating, buy-American thing is supported by 71 percent of the American...
It's amazing to me that the media and policymakers, not to mention a whole bunch of commenters on this thread, are just waking up to the fact that globalization is.
Moshe Marvit has an op-ed in the Washington Post debunking five myths about labor unions. A couple are particularly notable. Myth No. 3 Right-to-work laws would bankrupt unions. For the.
Above: More beneficiaries of free trade There are some winners in globalization and a lot of losers. Among the winners are capitalist elites in nearly all nations. Among the losers are the working and middle classes in globally wealthy companies seeing their tenuous hold on...
Above: More beneficiaries of free trade David Dayen argues that the free trade consensus is dead. Speaking on Monday at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, U.S. Trade.
Above: People who have clearly won because of free trade Whenever Vox wants to defend free trade like an evangelist defends some dude walking on water,.
Canadian natural resource companies are among the world's least socially responsible. Whether in mining, timber, or oil, they ravage the environment and intimidate or even kill local people standing in their way. A lot of their operations are in Latin America, where they work with...
This is a guest post by Paul Adler, lecturer at the Harvard History and Literature program. He received his PhD in history from Georgetown University in 2014. Paul’s dissertation, Planetary.
As I have been saying throughout the election season, the collapse of the working class thanks to capital mobility is going a long way to feed Donald Trump's popularity. The.