Maybe I have wrong impression, but I think anti-global trade movement of the 90s-00s didn’t make an argument of “stop imports which are made with less X bucks an hour wage, cause this would offshore your job”
What? I don’t think seattle was lacking in class consciousness, I think either their messaging was meh or I was reality invented. Or they couldn’t break through with rhetoric :deeper-sadness:
Yup, it was always framed as if China, or Japan, or Korea was "stealing" the good jobs from the USA. Even though what really was happening was that the USA businesses were sending those jobs overseas all on their own.
That didn't happen on its own. It was US government policy to give preferential treatment to other countries, opening US markets wide, while letting those same countries close their markets to American made goods. This could only harm the American worker.
The nail in the coffin was NAFTA. Ross Perot was right about the "great sucking sound" of American working class jobs disappearing to Mexico.
Maybe I have wrong impression, but I think anti-global trade movement of the 90s-00s didn’t make an argument of “stop imports which are made with less X bucks an hour wage, cause this would offshore your job”
i don't remember that discourse having any class consciousness, it was just overt racists vs liberal racists who wanted cheap labor.
What? I don’t think seattle was lacking in class consciousness, I think either their messaging was meh or I was reality invented. Or they couldn’t break through with rhetoric :deeper-sadness:
They set Seattle on fire in protest of NAFTA.
Yup, it was always framed as if China, or Japan, or Korea was "stealing" the good jobs from the USA. Even though what really was happening was that the USA businesses were sending those jobs overseas all on their own.
That didn't happen on its own. It was US government policy to give preferential treatment to other countries, opening US markets wide, while letting those same countries close their markets to American made goods. This could only harm the American worker.
The nail in the coffin was NAFTA. Ross Perot was right about the "great sucking sound" of American working class jobs disappearing to Mexico.