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Globalization

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Mar 2004Percentage of Chinese exports to the U.S. accounted for by merchandise sold at Wal-Mart : 10
Source:

Wal-Mart (Bentonville, Ark.)/Department of Commerce (Washington)

Mar 2004Number of factory jobs that China has lost since 1995 : 25,000,000
Source:

Alliance Capital Management Corporation (N.Y.C.)

Mar 2004Estimated percentage of the 2.9 million U.S. jobs lost since March 2001 that have not reappeared abroad : 83
Source:

Forrester Research (Cambridge, Mass.)/Bureau of Labor Statistics (Washington)

March 30, 2004 Treasury Secretary John Snow said that "outsourcing" of American jobs makes the American economy stronger.
Source:

Cincinnati Enquirer

March 19, 2004 Pennsylvania lawmakers were considering a bill that would reward state contractors for using American workers.
Source:

New York Times

March 17, 2004The president of the World Bank was splattered with green paint by antiglobalization protesters.
Source:

Reuters

February 11, 2004The chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers said that the outsourcing of American jobs to other countries is "a good thing" that is "probably a plus for the economy in the long run."
Source:

New York Times

November 21, 2003Ten thousand people demonstrated in Miami against a meeting of trade officials who hope to set up a free-trade area among 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Source:

New York Times

November 19, 2003The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace released a study concluding that Nafta has failed to create jobs for Mexico and has hurt thousands of rural Mexican farmers. The report also said that the net effect on U.S. jobs had been "minuscule."
Source:

New York Times

September 2, 2003 President Bush, apparently worried about the fact that the American economy has lost almost 3 million jobs since he took office, promised to appoint a "manufacturing czar" who will watch out for blue-collar jobs.
Source:

New York Times

June 26, 2001Thirty-two hippies were injured in Barcelona during an anti-globalization protest; the Spanish police, unlike their Swedish brethren, failed to shoot the protesters with live ammunition.
September 19, 2000José Bové, the French farmer who vandalized a McDonald's while protesting globalization, was sent to jail for three months.

AUGUST 2008

THE WRECKING CREW
How a Gang of Right-Wing Con Men Destroyed Washington and Made a Killing
By Thomas Frank

THE MANDARINS
American Foreign Policy, Brought to You by China
By Ken Silverstein

JACK
A story by Marilynne Robinson

Also: WILLIAM H. GASS on Henry James