List Books » Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards
Authors: Alan Tonelson
ISBN-13: 9780813340241, ISBN-10: 0813340241
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
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.
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
...all of us need to get informed, and The Race to the Bottom is certainly a good place to start.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Prologue to the Paperback Edition | ||
Ch. 1 | Introduction - A Tale of Two Cities | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Some Boom | 19 |
Ch. 3 | What's Globalization Got to Do with It? | 35 |
Ch. 4 | The Global Workforce Explosion | 53 |
Ch. 5 | A New Kind of Trade | 81 |
Ch. 6 | High-Tech Job Flight | 99 |
Ch. 7 | False Hopes | 137 |
Ch. 8 | Toward a New Race | 153 |
Notes | 175 | |
Index | 211 |