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Coming to a town near you: corporate globalization and its impact on massachusetts workers
Nancy Della Mattera1, Jennifer Gaudet
1Labor Extension Project, UMASS Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA.
Abstract:
This report examines five themes of globalization: trade agreements and job loss; corporate growth; outsourcing and privatization; downward wage pressures; and immigration. We begin with an overview that connects each of these themes to the Massachusetts experience and highlights the corporate strategies that are affecting this experience. These themes are then interwoven throughout the three case studies that follow: "forced supplier migration" at a GE supply plant in Wilmington; outsourced dining service workers at Harvard; and the transformation of the fish processing industry in New Bedford.
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