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But it's still true, and imagining that low wages and poor working conditions are realities imposed upon developing countries by the United States is a delusion that makes understanding the actual operations of the WTO impossible.
Nobody minded much as long as somebody else was paying the bill (true, the economists warned in their dreary way that costly benefits get shifted back to workers in the form of lower wages, but who listens to them?)
They did it because they didn't want to pay union wages when they didn't have to.
Postal Service Wages and Benefits to the Private Sector: Evidence from the Total Compensation Premium, New Hire Increases, Quit Rates and Application Rates," Michael L Wachter, Barry T. Hirsch, and James W. Gillula, July 10, 1995.
I was disappointed that Michael Kinsley's "modest proposal" to reform the welfare system by re-establishing slavery ("Good Jobs at Now Wages") did not mention the book from which it was likely inspired, Hilaire Belloc's The Servile State (1911).