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Sustaining workers’ bargaining power in an age of globalization

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Time after time, the labor-rights provisions of trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA fail the workers they were designed to protect. EPI's new Briefing Paper, Sustaining Workers' Bargaining Power in an Age of Globalization, released as part of its Agenda for Shared Prosperity, lays out a plan to remedy this problem.

Through China’s looking glass—Subsidies to the Chinese glass industry from 2004-08

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In the midst of a global recession, subsidies to Chinese glass are increasing. This new EPI report documents the explosive growth of China's glass and glass products industry and the government subsidies that have bolstered this growth from 2004 to 2008.

Climate Change Policy—Border Adjustment Key to U.S. Trade and Manufacturing Jobs

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A well-designed climate change policy can support the economic recovery and ensure that U.S. manufacturing comes back stronger and cleaner than before. Poorly designed policies, however, could slow or halt the recovery of significant segments of U.S. manufacturing and could even lead to increased global production of greenhouse gases. One of the keys to achieving these goals is to include a border adjustment mechanism to help stem carbon leakage.

Publications

Sustaining workers’ bargaining power in an age of globalization

Through China’s looking glass—Subsidies to the Chinese glass industry from 2004-08

Climate Change Policy—Border Adjustment Key to U.S. Trade and Manufacturing Jobs

Long-term unemployment soars

The trade deficit trap—How it got so big, why it persists, and what to do about it

China dominates U.S. non-oil trade deficit in 2009

The status of the steel industry and U.S. manufacturing

Labor Shortages and Comprehensive Immigration Reform [event]

Immigration for Shared Prosperity

Invest in America: Essential policies needed to secure U.S. jobs in the auto industry

Note to Big Three: Invest in America

A Policy Agenda for Offshoring

Squandering the blue-collar advantage

False Expectations of Trade Agreements: Lessons for Change (Remarks by Robert B. Cassidy)

When giants fall: Shutdown of one or more U.S. automakers could eliminate up to 3.3 million U.S. job

The Offshoring of Innovation

An investment, not a bailout

Everybody wins, except for most of us: What economics teaches about globalization

The burden of outsourcing

Building Shared Prosperity

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