Exporting America Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas

by Dobbs, Lou

• ISBN13: 9780446695091
• ISBN10: 0446695092
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-11
• Publisher: Business Plus

Summary

With the pay of corporate CEOs at historic highs and job creation at the lowest levels since the Depression, corporations are laying off Americansblue-collar factory workers and white-collar professionals alikepurely to cut costs. For covering this devastating trend, Lou Dobbs has come under attack, but he has refused to be intimidated, and now he tells the full story: naming names, providing the shocking statistics, and exploding the myths that say this national epidemic is either good or necessary. A stirring call-to-arms, this powerful book should be required reading for all people who care about the future of American industry.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Assault on Middle-Class Americans	7	(13)
What Right to Work?	20	(21)
Working Against Ourselves	41	(11)
Globalization	52	(12)
The High Cost of Free Trade	64	(16)
The Exporters	80	(21)
The Myths of Outsourcing and Free Trade	101	(18)
For the People?	119	(18)
A Simple Choice	137	(12)
Finding the Solutions	149	(12)
Appendix A: The Letters	161	(6)
Appendix B: The List	167