SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Blue-Collar Worker, Wall Street Reform, North American Free Trade Agreement

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: basham

Document Summary

Back in the 1993 president clinton pushed through the nafta treaty (started in. He promised this would lead to hundreds of thousands of new us jobs, markets for out exports and better protection for labor and the environment but the real effects? (the walmart film discussed this?) Gigantic wave of migrants to united states, partly due to disastrous impact in. Recently, another democratic president (obama) pushed a trade deal with china and asia (tpp) Some people argued it would give us edge on china. It would reduce ability to regulated some trade (food products, medicines) and also possibly roll back internet freedom and wall street reform. Given the possible negative impacts: further us deindustrialization and growing inequality, threats to internet freedom, more power to corporations to attack various. Once again, the claim tis the free trade will creates jobs and lower prices for.