Re: Re: Re: Re: textiles

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Part of the question seems to be how do you organize in the absence of
international solidarity?  In short, how do you make Cambodian wages move
up instead of US wages moving down?  Wouldn't the center of gravity of a
competitive international wage be close to China?

The intellectually easy, but practically hard strategy -- within the
bounds of capitalism -- would be to find ways to create high wage jobs in
the US, but in doing that say by building high tech textile equipment
would still destroy jobs in the 3rd world.

Without getting into rancorous exchanges, what would a progressive
strategy be.  Of course, socialism would be desirable, but ....

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

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