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Globalization Perspectives of Robert B. Reich and William M. Adler

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so in very different manners. Reich offers a detailed historical and political perspective that delineates how the global business environment arrived at this point. As this suggests, Reichs book  deals with globalization in a manner that could be utilized for deciding public policy. Adlers book, on the other hand, while dealing with precisely the same topic is totally different.  Adlers book gives a human face to the statistics and descriptions that Reich records. Adler, a free-lance journalist, follows the course of  a job and its role in the lives of three women. These women live worlds apart, yet they are each affected by the same economic forces. The basic idea  behind Adlers book is to describe a job -- in this case, the job in question is the one held by Mollie James, an African American woman. Mollie was  the first woman union steward and the first woman to run a stamping machine, "the first to laminate steel" (Adler 13). This job is what Mollie has done for  the last thirty-four years. For Mollie, the job paid $7.91 an hour, which is barely a living wage. However, with the overtime that Mollie habitually put in, her annual income  was around $30,000 (Adler 13). With company-paid health insurance, Mollie had raised her family, bought a house, a car, and been able to count on a future (Adler 13).  Mollies job of laminating steel moves first to Mississippi, but then, like so many jobs, it crosses the border to a "maquiladora" site in Matamoros, Mexico, just over the Rio  Grande from Brownsville. In Mexico, the job is performed again by a woman, Balbina Duque. The nature of the job has not changed. However, while this job provided Mollie with,