“The US is currently at war and, simultaneously, at another historical crossroad of domestic policy that will not only undermine the economic life of working people, but will tax the social and political institutions of the nation at large. The stakes of the unfolding US strategy to exploit millions of Mexican and Central American laborers as transient servants through a national guest worker program are staggering.”
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In Combating Globalization we caution that transnational capital will turn to increasing globalization as part of their strategy for economic recovery and thereby undercut the working people of North America even further.
This is exactly what is happening in the financial sector of the US economy.
In the past six years the dozen US banks receiving the biggest rescue packages have requested visas for more than 21,800 foreign workers .
In the last three months of 2008, these same banks announced more than 100,000 layoffs.
Allowing these banks to replace US workers with foreign workers will contribute to the attrition of working people in the US and reinforce the trend of growing inequality in the nation.
The time to formulate an aggressive strategy for combating globalization is now.
Transient Servitude Update: The Continuing Efforts to Establish a US Guest Worker Program — Comment
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Since the end of the 20th century, the neoliberal sector of US capitalism has relentlessly pursued the establishment of a national guest worker program to import cheap labor from the Global South [especially Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean]. The failure of the US Congress to implement comprehensive immigration reform that includes provisions for a guest worker program has not derailed capital’s initiative. The purpose of Transient Servitude Update is to bring Transient Servitude: The US Guest Worker Program for Exploiting Mexican and Central American Workers (Monthly Review, January 2007) up to date by presenting timely analysis of the important developments of this critical issue that will shape the future of all labor in the 21st century.
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