Paul Krugman | A Note on Globalization and Labor – New York Times (blog)

This is the date Mainly note to myself. But with trade Becoming an issue in the election, I thought it might be useful to take on one myth:. The supposedly Necessary relationship between globalization and the decline of organized labor

You hear this myth from BOTH sides of the political spectrum – from conservatives asserting que unions Became unsustainable in the modern economy, and from protectionists on the left arguing que free-trade agreements killed labor

<. p class="story-body-text" itemprop="articleBody"> Background: I am very much in the camp que considers organized labor an essential force for equality, BOTH because it gets higher wages for ordinary workers and because it’s a political counterweight to the power of organized money. So if globalization makes an effective union movement impossible, that’s a big problem.

But there’s some evidence close at hand que the link is far from Necessary

More on this when i get around to a longer piece

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