Re: The Economic Eviction Of White Men

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March 26, 2002

Abolishing America (contd.): The Economic Eviction Of White Men
By Paul Craig Roberts

White males are suffering from long-term deterioration in lifetime
income growth and job security, according to a study, "Divergent
Paths," just released by the Russell Sage Foundation.

The study by four academic sociologists and statisticians compares the
wage growth and job security of young white males who entered the labor
market in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the experience of a
previous generation of young white males who entered the labor market
in the mid-1960s. The study finds that 90 percent of young white male
workers can expect to have lower lifetime wage growth than the previous
generation.

The study concludes that "upward mobility has deteriorated for young
white men who entered the labor market in the 1980s." The change is
significant and permanent, comprising "a massive downshift in earning
standards" that has hollowed out the middle class and left large
numbers of white males stuck in low wage service jobs that have no
future.

The trend is especially adverse for the 66 percent of the work force
that never attains a four year college degree. However, even college
graduates are experiencing difficulties. Although better off relative
to other young white males, 65 percent of college graduates who began
working in 1980 have experienced less income growth than college
graduates who began their careers in the mid-1960s.

The researchers have no satisfactory explanation for their worrisome
findings. They point fingers at deregulation, corporate downsizing,
decline of unionization, and a stagnant minimum wage and wander off
into leftwing drivel about "the imbalance of power that is inherent
in a capitalist system."

A better explanation of the study's conclusion that the majority of
white males "can no longer expect stable careers that lead to a
solid, family-sustaining wage" is found in race and gender quotas,
massive unskilled immigration, and in the way the U.S. practices "free
trade."

The study shows that women "experienced real wage growth during this
period" when "earnings for male workers stagnated and even
declined." In order to protect against U.S. Department of Justice
(sic) lawsuits, every U.S. corporation has had to institutionalize race
and gender quotas that discriminate against "over-represented"
white males. These quotas have adversely impacted the upward mobility
of white males.

Massive unskilled immigration from third world countries greatly
increases the labor supply and undercuts the wages of unskilled and
low-skilled white males.

Formerly, the U.S. practiced traditional trade. We imported what others
produced best and exported what we produced best. Some traditional
trade still takes place, but the U.S. also practices a new kind of
trade.

U.S. companies export unfinished and semi-finished materials to their
factories in Mexico and China, where Mexican and Chinese workers add
value. The goods are then exported back to the U.S. for sale to the
American consumer. In this type of trade the U.S. will always run a
deficit because what we "export" has lower value than what we
"import."

When goods cross borders they are measured as international trade, but
such movements are really intra-firm trade that allows cheaper Mexican
and Chinese labor to be substituted for U.S. labor. U.S. companies
produce for the American consumer with foreign labor.

The result is a decline in higher paying jobs in the U.S. as companies
move higher value-added operations abroad to take advantage of cheaper
labor.

A recent Cornell University study, "The Impact of U.S.-China Trade
Relations on Workers, Wages and Employment," [PDF 136 pages]
concludes that U.S. companies shift their production to China in order
to produce for the U.S. market with cheap Chinese labor. The study
estimates that a minimum of 760,000 U.S. jobs have been lost to China
since 1992.

"An increasing percentage of the jobs leaving the U.S. are in
higher-paying industries producing goods such as bicycles, furniture,
motors, compressors, generators, fiber optics, clocks, injection
molding and computer components." The shift in production is so
extensive that the U.S. has run a trade deficit with China in advanced
technology goods since 1995.

China requires U.S. firms that want access to China's low cost labor
to relocate Research & Development operations to China along with
factories, thus replacing American designers, engineers and scientists
with Chinese ones.

White American males face deteriorating career prospects because: U.S.
companies substitute foreign labor for U.S. labor, civil rights policy
requires discrimination against white males in employment and
promotion, and massive immigration drives down wages in construction,
services and other employment. [See "Jobless White Males" by Peter
Brimelow in Forbes. Link requires registration.]

The end result of the job transfers will be a U.S. population too poor
to purchase the products produced by cheap Chinese and Mexican labor.

Paul Craig Roberts is the author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions :
How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the
Name of Justice.

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