The extremely-sharp Dean Baker writes: Dean Baker: Globalization” Was Policy, Not Something That Happened): E.J. Dionne and Harold Meyerson… interesting columns… suffer from the same major error…. The loss of manufacturing jobs and downward pressure on the wages of non-college educated workers… as… the result of a natural process of globalization. This is wrong. The … Continue reading Manufacturing Employment in Historical Perspective: The 27% Manufacturing Labor Force of the Great Society Would Be Gone No Matter What