The Race to the Bottom
Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8024365M
- ISBN-139780813368177
- ISBN-100813368170
- OCLC Control Number44703398
- OCLC Control Numberracetobottomwhyw00tone
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number00043706
- Goodreads3922252
- LibraryThing174072
Classifications
- LCCHF1713 .T686 2000
Description
"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.
First Sentence
AY BACK IN THE MID-1990S, NO TWO CITIES SYMBOLIZED THE new global economy and its promises of progress and prosperity like Seattle, Washington, and Bangkok, Thailand.
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