A couple summers ago I went to Oceana, West Virginia. One of the ressidence of the town was talking about an incident which has occured only about seven years eirlier. He spoke passionatlly about how he had worked for decades at a mining company which essentially employed the entire town. When they found they could hire the residents of another town for cheaper, they simply took their buissiness elsewhere; decades of hard work and seved up leave and benifits gone with no warning. The economy of the entire town in ruins. It begs the question in outsourcing, or any ecconomy; what do we do with those who are lost in the shuffle. Reading Friedman’s book in many ways has reshaped my view on globalization, but I think sometimes for practicalities sake ecconomic anylists don’t always take into account the humanity envolved in the labor force, and for many education will simply come too late.
sgreenla said,
September 11, 2006 at 8:43 pm
It sounds like you’ve got some ideas for what questions we need to answer about globalization.