Re: RE: Re: textiles

[Rakesh Bhandari <rakeshb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

michael pugliese wrote:

>    Yesterday on NPR it was said that 75,000 textile jobs have
> been lost in the last yr.

lost due to national and global recession?  loss of jobs that would
have been added if not for recession? lost due to automation? lost to
specifically defensive automation in the face of imports? lost due to
surge of imports?

how was this number arrived at? what is it an estimate of? is it
reliable? why we should we be concerned only with job loss in one
sector, not net job gain or loss due to globalization or regional
markets (i.e., why not include jobs gained  directly and indirectly
from capital inflow, including foreign direct investment; jobs gained
from exports)? why not estimate how successful the 'North' has been
in slowing down the loss of industries in which they have no
comparative advantage as well as the human consequences that this had
on poor countries?

Michael, I remember when you were sending around *very* low estimates
of the human destruction wrought by the us sanctions on iraq, while
suggesting that they were authoritative because some person with
impeccable leftist credentials had made them. It did not seem to me
to be a very credible way of proceeding.

Rakesh