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people act like nafta was the beginning of shutdowns, outsourcing, globalization. but in fact, there was much precedent as early as the seventies for corporate america abandoning the workers to make more profit regardless of what the profit decisions did to people individually and whole communities. youngstown was a prime example of corporate greed in the 70s. '...the shutdown struggle had been different. us. steel's headquarters people didn't seem to care about fairness. for them it was a question of what would be most profitable. in court, too, everything was either one thing or the other, either black or white. vasquez (union leader) concluded that courts were not for working people. (they are even less for working people now) - staughton lynd |
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