Jeff Rubin: unpacking the impact of globalisation on working people

"Rubin makes the connection between the anxiety – if not anger – about the hollowing out of the US' industrial heartlands, the coastal regions that fuelled England’s Brexit vote and the so-called populist revolts against the political class in France"

An overgrown parking lot lies empty in front of the closed Packard Electric complex on October 29, 2012 in Warren, Ohio. Warren, like much of rust belt Ohio, had suffered through long-term economic decline, even before the 2010s recession. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

• The Expendables: How The Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalisation
• Jeff Rubin
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