----- Original Message ----- From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu>
> So industrialization/globalization can be blamed only for not solving
> all social problems (hardly a blame, since nothing can), rather than
for
> making everyone but a handful of rich people worse off. However,
> whether the rising standards of living among some segments of the
third
> world work force are or are not enough of a compensation for a bunch
of
> white males in the US having to switch jobs from GM to Wal-Mart is an
> altogether different question, the answer to which depends on where
one
> stands.
>
> Wojtek
>
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And for US lefties the task is to demonstrate to those white males that the core problem is the institutionalized practices that give a tiny class of people the power to lower the standard of living for one group of workers to a far greater extent than they raise the living standard of another and skim the arbitraged rents. Throw in race/gender/class talk in a user friendly way and progress can indeed be made in generating public discussion...........
Ian