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... technologies and decreasing labor costs 155 - Major tactic, to move production abroad lower labor costs, disregard to env. Damage, test products with less laws on animals or humans - Women entering workforce 0 relatively less power and more vulnerable to exploitation no matter what skills they have secret behind employers preference for women workers pg. 156 - Economies of scale, economies of scope demand for more specialized products pg. 157 - Nike, Bennetton and Schwinn dont own production facilities but merely design and market goods mfgd by foreign contractors same as Walmart and K-Mart - Us and other 1st world countries mfging products abroad large increase, integrating third world more and more systematically into mfging for all markets (new economic order) pg. 157 - Good sum-up on pg. 158 some frequently claim the 3rd world is oinly marginally important to the international economy, however the effects of the international economy are certainly not marginal to those inhabiting the so-called third world - 159, indifference now of US interests in Latin America Modern Times TNC vs. New TNCs - From end of 60s, US workers thrown into competition with world wide pools of labor pg. 160 - Interesting point emergence of sweatshops in the US, similar to those of the third world coming to the first world pg. 160 - Wage levels now sensitive to international competition pg. 161 - Pg. 161 talks about differences in jobs nowadays, especially between women and men - pg. 162 whit emale working class - nerouvs as African Americans, women, immigrants, pooor, foreign competitors, etc - mad at government, seen as parastici and intrusive - talks about how men...