PSCI 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Blue-Collar Worker, North American Free Trade Agreement, Agency Shop
25 Jan 2017
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Shrinking middle class/income inequality: middle class is shrinking, upper and lower class percentages are rising. Higher percentage went to upper than middle going to lower: increase in income inequality, varying definitions of middle income. Relatively stagnant incomes: income growth was equal for all until 2000"s. Post-wwii golden era : europe, japan, russia was in ruins, 1945/46, us industries provided for intrastate and international states. Other countries came out with their own cars, cheaper and better. Japan and toyota: manufacturing jobs vanish. Manufacturing had not been keeping up with the rest of the economy. Automation/technology: more and more labor intensive jobs, can do with a high school diploma, are going away due to automation. Operating robots: white color jobs also outsourced or lessened because of internet. Decline of unions: 1950"s - blue collar jobs were union jobs that would guarantee and negotiate wages, retirements, work conditions. A third of the jobs were unionized: since 1970"s, decline in union membership and unionization.
