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So many things then were working in favor of the average worker. America dominated a world economy in which the industrial foundations of many European and Asian countries had been destroyed by World War II, so for years thereafter there were vast numbers of manufacturing jobs to be filled. Outsourcing was limited, and China had yet to join the World Trade Organization (that happened in December 2001) and its workforce was not yet much of a threat to most good blue-collar jobs. With the push and pull of globalization relatively mild, innovation slower, and the barriers to entry into different industries higher, unions were relatively stronger and could negotiate healthy and steady wage and benefits packages from employers. Companies could also afford more in-house training of their workers, who were less mobile and therefore less likely to learn and quit. Because the pace of change was slower, whatever you had learned in high school or college stayed relevant and useful much longer; skills gaps were less prevalent. Machines, robots, and, most important, software had not advanced to the point where they could abstract so much complexity so easily and cheaply—and in the process undermine the bargaining power of both industrial and service unions.

As a result of all these factors, many workers in this labor Holocene enjoyed what was known as “a high-wage middle-skilled job,” explained Stefanie Sanford, ***chief of global policy and advocacy for the College Board***.

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