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Their struggle not only underscores the obstacles confronting workers’ organizations in an era of outsourcing and global supply chains, but also might serve as a model for workers in other industries.
Perhaps more important, building a coalition of workers, consumers, and allied activists to apply pressure at the top could be a model for positive change for workers in globalized industries in India, Bangladesh, China, and elsewhere.
Indeed, with certain institutions and industries benefiting when all of the system’s components – vehicles, roads, fuel stations, traffic laws, regulations, vehicle standards, and licensed drivers – work together, no transformational development has occurred in road transportation since Karl Benz invented the car and Henry Ford popularized it.
The public increasingly acts as the conscience of companies and industries, asking hard questions and holding them to account.
Trump has decided to increase the level of protection for various industries in the US, such as steel and aluminum.
The financial system has yet to address adequately the challenges of financial inclusivity, particularly funding of SMEs and rural areas, and exposure to excess capacity in selected industries.
Competition among countries for skilled individuals and profitable industries, in turn, constrains governments’ abilities to maintain high tax rates on the wealthy.
But while blocking change can protect existing industries and jobs for a while, doing so dramatically deters investment, and eventually hurts growth and employment.
Moreover, these industries often play a central role in the economic development of resource-rich countries.
The importance of financial transparency in the extractive industries is not limited to one country or era – and it is too important to be left to voluntary efforts alone.
Countries differ in the amount of know-how they possess, and industries differ in the amount of know-how they require.
Controlling for population and per capita income, travel is significantly more intense to and from countries and industries that possess or use more know-how.
As we recently argued, the key will be to maintain an annual growth rate of roughly 6.5%, while pursuing a multifaceted short-term stabilization plan that aims to stimulate job creation to offset the losses from restructuring inefficient industries and eliminating excess capacity.
The government planned to liberalize interest rates and the capital account to encourage investment in modern, high-value industries, rather than continue to subsidize low-value exports.
It started to shift the economy’s base from export-oriented industries to domestic growth, and from manufacturing to services.
There is no obvious substitute for such industries at home.
The working-age population has peaked, urbanization is slowing, and the steel and cement industries are suffering from overcapacity.
When the McKinsey Global Institute analyzed more than 2,000 Chinese companies in industries ranging from coal and steel to auto manufacturing and retail, it found opportunities to raise productivity by 20-100% by 2030.
Chinese companies are major producers in a broad range of industries, but they have yet to take over the steps that add the most value.
Over the past decade, overcapacity has reduced annual returns on capital in the country’s coal and steel industries from 17% to 6%.
Restructuring industries like steel, by letting uncompetitive players fail and encouraging consolidation, could raise productivity dramatically without compromising the ability to meet demand.
In the 1990s, ailing state industries and the Asian financial crisis risked dragging down the country’s economy.
It was because of a nasty war, plain and simple, with people drafted into fighting, or into industries supplying the war effort.
More and more industries appreciate this.
Thatcher’s answers to the growing industrial disorder of the 1970’s were “monetarism” to liquidate inflation, legal curbs on trade-union power, and privatization of bloated state-owned industries – “selling off the family silver” as former Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan called it.
It is a goal that sends an unambiguous signal that CO2-emitting industries will either have to change or die, and that the future lies with zero-emissions technologies and businesses.
This applies across industries, not just in banking.
China, as the factory to the world, wants a formula that marks down carbon intensity linked to export industries.
In Western Europe and the United States, early capitalism drew huge numbers of young, single women into industries like textiles.
In a way, this is already happening through cottage industries in countries such as China, Ghana, India, and Nigeria, which employ ill-equipped artisans who are not sufficiently trained to avoid harmful procedures that contaminate the environment and sicken themselves and their neighbors.
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