Technology, transportation, and the rise of China and India.

Editor,

According to your newspaper, advances in "technology" and "transportation," and an inexplicable "rise" of China and India, account for the globalization of the corporate economy. Meanwhile offshore labor with zero bargaining power paid 10 to 100 times less than American workers -- and tens of billions of dollars invested in plant and equipment outside of the United States since 1979 by American corporations, particularly in China, to produce goods for the American market using dirt-cheap labor -- are treated as having no relevance at all to this miraculous "rise."

Consider the Maquiladoras that line the U.S.-Mexico border like liquor stores on the outskirts of a wet town next door to a dry one. On one side of the border organized labor and a living wage. On the other desperate people willing to accept whatever crumbs our masters care to hand them.