Job Gear – Equiptment for work

A telling portrait of North American labor and capital over the last half-century, Mollie s Job is the story of a family-owned factory founded during the postwar boom in an archetypal Mid-Atlantic industrial town, that relocated to Mississippi, and eventually ended up in a Mexican border town. Through the lives and intersecting fates of three female factory workers, it sheds new light on major societal and economic: the decline of unions and the middle class; the growing gap between rich and poor; public policy that rewards companies for transferring jobs abroad; the detrimental effect of free trade on stable businesses and communities; and, most poignantly, the devastating impact of globalization on the lives of real people on both sides of the border.

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