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"And without these exports, millions would still live in abject poverty in places like Malaysia, China and India."

I wonder when Malaysians were living in "abject poverty"?

I'm pro-globalization and free trade but there is a definite impact upon middle class workers in services and manufacturing in the developed world. The disquiet has helped Lou Dobbs' show on CNN's North America feed to become #2 just behind Larry King, with a sensationalist hour of nationalism, xenophobia, isolationism and protectionism.

And the gist of those discussions is how to finesse the subject and maintain the status quo. Not turn the effects around.

If the investor class wished, they could resolve the woes of the middle class any time they chose. Give them a job, a raise, etc.

Simple, yes?

You say, "Unskilled and low-skilled workers are not faring that bad either."

Well let's say you travel 2-3 hours from your slum to you job.

Let's say you moved from your broken down rural village to that slum (leaving family behind) and can't find work and so you deal with the contractor who'll loan you the money at usurious rates to take you to the Middle East to work as a near slave.

Yeah, not faring too bad!

I hope the debate about the losers of globalization will not be eclipsed by the hoopla about the shifting of media power, etc. You post seems to be the only one (I found) that touches upon the issue.

In India it is not the job security that is the concern of the burgeoning middle class but the wide gap in the salary levels of IT workers and the rest which is causing heart burns.

I have suffered a great deal because
of the H1-B visa program, and I want
to make the advocates of globalism
feel my pain.

The backlast against globalization
and oursourcing will not be confined
to purely political venues.

People who are in favor of bringing
Cheap Slave Labor to America in order
to replace US workers deserve what's
coming to them.

This is no longer theoretical, and
the current investigations into stock
options fraud are only the beginning.

It is narrow minded to focus solely on the middle class that is losing.

For example, if money gained through globalization was not spent on nuclear weapons and missiles to shoot down military satellites, millions of more citizens in China would be elevated from poverty.

The environmental degredation resulting from uncontrolled globalization also needs to be considered. This is especially true when jobs are lost in western countries to businesses in foreign countries who keep the cost of their goods low by avoiding investments in pollution reduction technologies.

Globalization is not a new phenomenon and has always thrown up winners and losers. The invention of the power loom coupled with the British version of globalization (Imperialism in the 1800s) destroyed the Indian handloom industry. The first wave of manufacturing outsourcing saw the rise of the Asian tigers; the second wave has unleashed China. There is optimism that India will catch up too. The rise of China is already benefiting producers in Africa and Central/South America. Doubtless there are people in the western world who have been adversely affected but the please remember that even the rising middle classes in the developing world cannot take for granted, the facilities and infrastructure that even the poorest of Europe can legitimately expect.