Is Adjustment Assistance an Answer?

See Mitchell Daniel J. B. , “Labor and the Tariff Question,” Industrial Relations (May 1970), pp. 268–276.

See Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, Report to the President and the Congress (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1954), pp. 54–58.

See, for example, the testimony of the National Association of Manufacturers in Committee on Finance, Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1962), pp. 1630–1631.

The new positions of the National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce can be found in U.S. House, Committee on Ways and Means, Trade Reform, pp. 1929–2000, 1383.

See the statement of Abel I. W. , President of the Steelworkers, on behalf of the AFL-CIO in Committee on Ways and Means, Trade Reform, op. cit., p. 1218; AFL-CIO, “An American Trade Union View of International Trade and Investment” in U.S. Senate, Committee on Finance, Multinational Corporations (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1973), p. 80.

See Frank Charles R. Jr. , Adjustment Assistance: American Jobs and Trade with the Developing Countries (Washington: Overseas Development Council, 1973), p. 48.

For examples of the job-counting literature, see Krause Lawrence B. , “How Much of Current Unemployment Did We Import?”, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, number 2 (1971), pp. 417–427; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Problems and Policies of Trade: Manufactures and Semi-Manufactures (New York: United Nations, 1968), pp. 157–164; Stewart Eugene L. , “Import Competition and Governmental Policy,” op. cit., pp. 193–288.

Bale Malcolm D. , Adjustment to Freer Trade: An Analysis of the Adjustment Assistance Provisions of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1973; McCarthy James E. , Trade Adjustment Assistance: A Case Study of the Shoe Industry in Massachusetts, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Tufts University, 1974.

See the testimony of Nathaniel Goldfinger on behalf of the AFL-CIO in U.S. House, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade Adjustment Assistance (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1972), pp. 52–53.

See Mitchell Daniel J. B. , “Recent Changes in the Labor Content of U.S. International Trade,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review (April 1975), pp. 355–375.

See Manley Jefferey A. , “Adjustment Assistance: Experience Under the Automotive Products Trade Act of 1965,” Harvard International Law Journal (Spring 1969), pp. 294–315.

Bale , op. cit., p. 136.