Finding My Rosie the Riveter
- 7 years ago
Finding My Rosie the Riveter
I had always been told that automation, not trade, was the reason factory workers like Shannon were losing their jobs.
On March 15, I sat in a Cracker Barrel in Zionsville, Ind., a half-hour north of a factory in Indianapolis that was moving jobs to Mexico.
I had always been told by economists, diplomats and academics
that workers like Shannon were the few who had to be sacrificed so that the rest of us could be better off: They were the martyrs of globalization.
Sometimes I met her at the end of her shift — at 10 p.m. — at a Burger King nearby and drove home with her.
I had always been told that automation, not trade, was the reason factory workers like Shannon were losing their jobs.
On March 15, I sat in a Cracker Barrel in Zionsville, Ind., a half-hour north of a factory in Indianapolis that was moving jobs to Mexico.
I had always been told by economists, diplomats and academics
that workers like Shannon were the few who had to be sacrificed so that the rest of us could be better off: They were the martyrs of globalization.
Sometimes I met her at the end of her shift — at 10 p.m. — at a Burger King nearby and drove home with her.