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This 4 page paper examines two articles and the reactions of labor to current events. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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history, how events recounted in the articles explain the changes in labor organizing over time, and how earlier events help shed light on later happenings, and labors reaction to them.
Discussion The first article is actually a chapter from a book entitled "The American People in an Age of Global Capitalism 1989-2001." The chapter does just what it says, it
traces the history of developments during those years, during which some of the most momentous events in history took place, specifically the end of Communism in Russia and the fall
of the Berlin Wall. When the wall came down, it showed exactly how weak Communism really was; soon after that it failed completely, leaving capitalism to spread around the globe.
With the rise of capitalism, however, came the fall of labor. In the early to mid-1990s after the first Gulf War, the American economy underwent a strange experience: it grew
and prospered at the same time that Americans themselves remained uneasy about it. This appears to have been due to a split: companies merged or took over other companies, creating
larger and more profitable entities, but that profit did not trickle down to the workers, who remained stuck with stagnant wages and little or no future. Thus, labor began to
look away from capitalism, traditionally a Republican stronghold, and back to its roots with the Democratic Party. In essence, labor drifted to the left. Unfortunately, much of the economic base
of the country remained at the right wing, and labor was soon seen as too expensive and problematic. With the economy growing and becoming global, companies began outsourcing their jobs
to less expensive countries, rendering the American labor movement irrelevant. When Clinton was elected President, he bungled on many issues, both personal and political, though he remains a very popular
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