The Price Labor Paid for Free Trade (Robert Wright & Adam Dean)

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🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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2:27 The legacy of free trade in America 4:55 Adam’s new book Opening Up by Cracking Down, about the repression of union activism in developing countries 18:17 Car bombing and other ways Argentina subdued labor in the 80's 28:08 Why did the US open up trade so early? 33:03 The quasi-dystopian law India used to break strikes in the 90’s 38:12 Underacknowledged long-term effects of free trade 42:49 Is a pro-labor approach to free trade possible? 57:46 Making globalism great again

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Adam Dean (George Washington University, From Conflict to Coalition). Recorded December 15, 2022.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.0	Hi, Adam.
0:09.5	Hi, Bob.
0:10.7	How you doing?
0:11.7	Good.
0:12.2	Thanks for having me on.
0:13.9	My pleasure.
0:16.5	Let me introduce us.
0:17.4	I'm Robert Wright, publisher with Non-Zero Newsletter.
0:19.7	This is a non-zero podcast.
0:22.0	You're Adam Dean, political scientist at George Washington University, author of a new book published by Cambridge University Press called Opening Up, by Cracking Down, Labor Repression and Trade liberalization in democratic developing countries.
0:41.2	And it raises a lot of issues about the plight of organized labor in an era of international
0:48.5	trade and globalization and so on. And I want to get to as many of those as we can and use your book as a vehicle for doing that.
0:57.7	But first, I should say, by way of full disclosure, you're a former student of mine.
1:03.0	Employee.
1:04.3	What's that?
1:05.3	And employee.
1:06.2	And employee for a while, not for long.
1:11.8	I guess you finally found a higher wage job, apparently.
1:17.5	And when, I guess it was about 20 years ago, maybe spring of 2001, were you at Penn then?
1:25.7	Yeah, yeah, it would have been spring of probably 20, 2003,
1:31.9	because I started in the fall of 2002. See, I'm not sure that's possible, but we don't need to
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