“No one is making them stop”: Why corporations outsource catastrophe — and workers pay the price

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Labor historian Erik Loomis illuminates the warped economic order that exploits the global poor
SCOTT ERIC KAUFMAN

In his new book, “Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe,” University of Rhode Island history professor Erik Loomis addresses the limitations of understanding labor and environmental policy through a nationalistic perspective in a world in which a large majority of corporate entities embrace outsourcing as their operative economic philosophy. Salon sat down with him to discuss whether a return to horrifying excesses of the Industrial Revolution and Gilded Age is inevitable, or whether it might still be possible to reverse course and not live in a world in which unregulated sweatshops and environmental indifference are accepted as the cost of doing business.



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http://www.salon.com/2015/07/06/no_one_is_making_them_stop_why_corporations_outsource_catastrophe_and_workers_pay_the_price/

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1. Neither Bill Clinton nor Barack Obama even tried to slow them down. No more Third Wayers.