OUTSOURCE THIS? American Workers, the Jobs Deficit and Fair Globalization

This paper argues that the outsourcing of service and technical jobs represents a new phase in globalization. For the first time, the majority of American workers are now being forced to grapple with outsourcing as a threat to their own livelihood and the future prospects of their children. The current debate over outsourcing is trapped in a centuries-old debate between free trade, fair trade and protectionism. None of these positions is adequate to understand or to fix the contemporary jobs problem. Today s global economy can no longer be understood as a system of national economies trading with each other. Rather, it is a system of global markets, corporations, and institutions that cut across national boundaries. Fair trade is not enough, fair globalization is needed.

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