After China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, it is inevitable to lose work. As part of the treaty, China has to open up the labor market to the west in exchange for accession to the World Trade Organization. After China joined the WTO, Western investment began to flood China in the form of manufacturing. In the past 13 years, American International with a large brand of one-fifth of American workers has signed overseas while firing employees at home, exacerbating the discussion of the impact of globalization on the US economy I am making it.
However, it seems that other things are going well. Currently, many blue-colored Caucasians face a tough economic fate that blacks have endured for a long time. With automation in China and loss of work abroad, safety decreases, wages decrease, benefits fall, work becomes more unstable, full-time working hours are shortened. Recruited to support government benefits and services - this trend is particularly evident in Louisiana - Without them, many people can not make a living. A coming state: In a white country, conservative political scholar Charles Marie keeps track of the fate of Caucasians of labor age from 1960 to 2010. He compares at least the top 20% of those who got a bachelor's degree and been employed as a manager, at least 30% of people who are blue-collared or have a low-level white-collar work without having graduated from college Did. In 1960, the private life of the two groups was very similar.
With the information revolution, the Western countries turned their attention to the service industry and the white-collar economy. Many manufacturing jobs are outsourced to developing countries, which pays low wages to workers. This offshore outsourcing pushed former agricultural countries to developed economies while reducing the number of blue collar employment in advanced agricultural countries. In the United States, the former large-scale manufacturing base has drastically decreased in areas known as the last belt including North East and Midwest, including West New York and West Pennsylvania. Ohio State Toledo, New York State Rochester, Missouri State by the non-industrialization of these areas from the mid-1960s city such as Cleveland, Michigan Detroit, New York Buffalo, Pennsylvania Erie, Erie Pennsylvania Erie, Ohio Youngstown, In St. Louis, blue-collar workers steadily declined, then the population declined.