America is now facing the dark side of free trade.

• Author: Herbert, Bob
• Position: Perspectives - Brief Article

Globalization and outsourcing are hot topics this election season because so many middle-class Americans, instead of having the luxury of looking ahead to a brighter future for the next generation, are worried about supping into a Lower economic segment themselves. They are caught in a squeeze between corporations bent on extracting every Last ounce of productivity from U.S. employees and a vast new globalized work force that is eager and well able to do the jobs of American workers at a fraction of the pay. The sense of anxiety is growing and has crossed party Lines. Free-trade advocates insist that job outsourcing will, result in new, more...