From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Mon Nov 21 2005 - 12:40:18 EST
The following was sent to the working-class-studies list by Sherry Linton. The site by Palley is worth checking out./ In solidarity, Jerry -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Economist Thomas Palley has started a new blog offering political analysis of economic policy, available at www.thomaspalley.com. His latest posting, "The Politics of Globalization: Why Corporations Are Willing and Workers Are Losing," examines the challenges we face in changing the political landscape to better represent the interests of workers, rather than continuing the pattern of government and international organizations always putting the needs of corporations first. Among other things, he notes the problem of workers also being consumers -- as wages decrease, so do workers' need for low prices. Palley notes the difficulty of battling skewed representations of economic processes and the tendency of workers to be divided along racial and national lines. He concludes: "Solidarity has always been key to political and economic advance by working families, and it is key to mastering the politics of globalization. Developing a coherent story about the economics of globalization around which working families can coalesce is a key ingredient for solidarity. So too is understanding how globalization divides labor. Such understandings can help counter deep cultural proclivities to individualism, as well as other historic divides such as racism." To read the whole essay, visit www.thomaspalley.com. Sherry Linkon
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