Bangladeshi volunteers and rescue workers are pictured at the scene after an eight-storey building collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, on April 25, 2013.

Climate Change In a Time of Outsourcing

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 19, 2015

Erik Loomis discusses the environmental and labor-related problems of outsourcing. In Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe, he argues that when jobs can move anywhere in the world, bosses have no incentive to protect either their workers or the environment, and profit ends up being generated on the backs of workers and at the cost of toxic pollution. 

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