Catherwood LibraryILR School

In the United States, over time globalization has led to many manufacturing jobs to be shipped overseas to countries where labor was relatively less expensive. As a result, many of the people who lost their jobs to this phenomenon have been left politically polarized, falling either on the far left or far right. In the south, some regional unemployment levels were as high as 12.8% in 2010 as the result of nearly 10,000 manufacturing jobs being relocated abroad after China entered the World Trade Organization.