I recently ran into a quote that I had recorded from Robert Reich's "The Work of Nations" (1992). It recognized the economic trends that were really starting to bite, particularly the movement of manufacturing to low-wage countries and the consequent effect on the traditional "working class". He also argued that the traditional conceptio…
I recently ran into a quote that I had recorded from Robert Reich's "The Work of Nations" (1992). It recognized the economic trends that were really starting to bite, particularly the movement of manufacturing to low-wage countries and the consequent effect on the traditional "working class". He also argued that the traditional conception of large corporations as somehow representative of the nations they are headquartered in, and thus "national champions", was obsolete. I think there's a revised edition, but it would be interesting to go through the original and see how its predictions have worked out.
I recently ran into a quote that I had recorded from Robert Reich's "The Work of Nations" (1992). It recognized the economic trends that were really starting to bite, particularly the movement of manufacturing to low-wage countries and the consequent effect on the traditional "working class". He also argued that the traditional conception of large corporations as somehow representative of the nations they are headquartered in, and thus "national champions", was obsolete. I think there's a revised edition, but it would be interesting to go through the original and see how its predictions have worked out.