Globalization Doesn’t Have to Be a Winner-Take-All Deal
Free Trade Delivers Big Benefits, Panelists Say, but Workers Need Help and Protection
California has benefitted greatly from globalization—from cheap T-shirts, to leaps in technology, to proximity to Asia, to its agricultural exports. Why, then, is it disparaged by political leaders—as dissimilar as President Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders—as a boon to very few, at the expense of most? This was the question at the heart of a lively Zócalo/UCLA event entitled “Does Globalization Only Serve Elites?” before a packed house at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles.
Or, as moderator Steven Greenhouse, a former labor …
