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Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards by Alan Tonelson

Authors: Alan Tonelson
ISBN-13: 9780813340241, ISBN-10: 0813340241
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Alan Tonelson

Described in The New Republic as “probably the most significant economist spreading the nationalist gospel,” Alan Tonelson has been active in national trade politics for a decade. A Research Fellow at the United States Business and Industry Council, he lives in Washington, D.C.

Book Synopsis

A leading economic journalist explains why Washington's responses to globalization have created a global worker surplus that undermines both American workers and those in developing nations

Inside Business

...all of us need to get informed, and The Race to the Bottom is certainly a good place to start.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue to the Paperback Edition
Ch. 1Introduction - A Tale of Two Cities1
Ch. 2Some Boom19
Ch. 3What's Globalization Got to Do with It?35
Ch. 4The Global Workforce Explosion53
Ch. 5A New Kind of Trade81
Ch. 6High-Tech Job Flight99
Ch. 7False Hopes137
Ch. 8Toward a New Race153
Notes175
Index211

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