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The race to the bottom : why a worldwide worker surplus and uncontrolled free trade are sinking American living standards

Author: Alan Tonelson
Publisher: Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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"In The Race to the Bottom, Alan Tonelson explains how a competition has emerged in which countries with the weakest workplace safety laws, the lowest taxes, and the toughest unionization laws win investment from American and European countries.

Tonelson argues that this "race to the bottom" in labor standards has been the driving force behind the decline of American living standards for the past quarter century  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alan Tonelson
ISBN: 0813368170 9780813368177
OCLC Number: 44703398
Description: xviii, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction--A Tale of Two Cities --
Some Boom --
What's Globalization Got to Do with It? --
The Global Workforce Explosion --
A New Kind of Trade --
High-Tech Job Flight --
False Hopes --
Toward a New Race.
Responsibility: Alan Tonelson.
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"In The Race to the Bottom, Alan Tonelson explains how a competition has emerged in which countries with the weakest workplace safety laws, the lowest taxes, and the toughest unionization laws win investment from American and European countries.

Tonelson argues that this "race to the bottom" in labor standards has been the driving force behind the decline of American living standards for the past quarter century and, as we have already begun to see, will cause even bigger problems for the worldwide economy as it continues."--BOOK JACKET.

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