SAM BEN-MEIR: Capitalism has always been about movement, and our era of
deregulated globalization has only further augmented the hyper-mobility
of capital. As a consequence, this has
produced a virtually endless supply of cheap labor – trade
liberalization has seen jobs flee the country and compelled developing
countries to deregulate and turn a blind eye to labor standards so as to
maintain a competitive advantage. Trump’s promises to keep jobs at home
have been mostly empty rhetoric.
