Abstract
Free trade has long raised the specter of job loss to a wide range of American workers, particularly in periods of recession. Today, with the weakening of free-trade supporters, and the corresponding protectionist pressure mounting, Congress may be taking its eye of the long term benefits of free trade and focusing instead on the short-term, politically attractive benefits of protectionism. This Comment argues, however, that protectionism will in fact add many new faces to America's unemployment lines, and prolong the world recession - for protectionism invites retaliation, and no nation is so insulated from the world economy that it can pursue protectionism without suffering itself from resulting protectionism.
Recommended Citation
Steven T. O'Hara,
Worker Adjustment Assistance: The Failure & The Future,
5
Nw. J. Int'l L. & Bus.
394
(1983).
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njilb/vol5/iss2/22
