[PEN-L:6778] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: una preguntita

[Tom Lehman <uswa12@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
> http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
> Bombing DESTROYS human rights. US/NATO out of Serbia!