Re: Re: Re: textiles

[Rakesh Bhandari <rakeshb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Aside from that, don't U.S. textile and apparel workers deserve
> > some sort of attention?

that's not the question; they get attention embodied in protective
law. And, excuse me, is that a question at all or is it an
accusation?  Are you implying that I (with that foreign born name
written on my CT birth certificate) am not concerned with american
workers and thus unpatriotic? what is *your* unit of analytical
concern: US workers, non ruling class Americans, the global worker?
From whose perspective do you see things?

look again at your question; tell me what is implicit in it.



> > My soundbite is protect the worker, not the job,

but your published work on globalization has hardly delved into the
double standards in the trade regime. Which seems to imply to me that
your unit of analytical concern is the American worker.



> >  but I'd like to hear what you think should happen to disemployed
> > workers in this sector, who are disproportionally nonwhite and
> > female and generally rather ill-paid.


what is the question? what do i think should happen *to* them? or
what do i think those permanently  unemployed by this system should
do themselves?

Rakesh