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Are auto jobs lost forever?

Posted by Matthew Brett on July 26th 2008 at 11:49am

(Courtesy The Real News) Why can’t North American cars compete; and why should workers bear the brunt from lack of planning?

“Jim Stanford is an Economist in the Research Department of the Canadian Auto Workers, Canada’s largest private-sector trade union. He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1995 from the New School for Social Research in New York. He also holds economics degrees from Cambridge University in the U.K. (1986) and the University of Calgary (1984). Jim is the author of Paper Boom (published in 1999 by James Lorimer & Co.) and co-editor (with Leah F. Vosko) of Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004).”

Matthew Brett

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