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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #90: Offshoring Dirty Jobs, with Erik Loomis
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You might think the American worker has come a long way since the dreary days that inspired Upton Sinclair to write The Jungle—that the dirty, exploitative jobs of the Gilded Age were stamped out by modernization and regulation. But actually, those jobs have been shipped overseas, neatly hidden under the ven...