Shafted Free Trade & America's Working Poor

Nafta. The WTO. Trade agreements are supposed to benefit us all. Instead, in the decade since they've been in effect, life has become much worse for millions of ordinary Americans. Hundreds of thousands of people are out of work. Farmers earn less than it costs to grow their crops, but consumer prices are still rising. White-collar jobs are following factory jobs out of the country -- forever. Taxpayers foot the bill for the social, economic, and environmental wreckage. And our government pushes more and more free trade as the answer to problems created by...free trade. In Shafted, working people -- family farmers and farmworkers, fishermen and seamstresses -- describe the ruin free trade has brought to them, their families, and their towns. These aren't theorists; these are the voices of experience. And they're telling us, clearly and eloquently, that it's time to stop the madness that enriches a few companies at the cost of things so many Americans hold dear: justice, human rights, community, family, and the dignity of work and of workers. Book jacket.Ahn, Christine is the author of 'Shafted Free Trade & America's Working Poor', published 2003 under ISBN 9780935028928 and ISBN 0935028927.