Re-Charting America's Future: Responses to Arguments Against Stabilizing U.S. Population and Limiting Immigration by Roy Howard Beck  (1)
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Roy Beck, the Washington editor of the journal The Social Contract, argues for cutting immigration on the grounds that it contributes to the falling real wages that breed deteriorating communities and crumbling families--the "crisis of the middle class." He also suggests that immigration has increased the gap between the rich and the poor, driving down the wages of inner-city blacks and others at the bottom of the labor market. Beck goes further and makes the case that immigration harms every level of the economy, including the high-end, high technology sector.
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Among recent anti-immigration tracts, this slashing, sure-to-be controversial manifesto by Beck, Washington, D.C., editor of Social Contract, advances a number of new arguments. His main thrust is that current high levels of immigration serve the interest of a small elite, principally corporations and other employers that benefit from low-wage labor. The losers, in Beck's analysis, are not only America's poor and working class, forced to compete against immigrants, but also the broad middle class, because the labor glut, by reducing pressure on employers to share with employees the results of increased productivity, leads to depressed wages, reduced employee benefits and mounting economic insecurity. Hit particularly hard, Beck shows, are African Americans, because many employers meet minority hiring targets by employing immigrants instead of them. He also blames environmental damage on overpopulation caused partly by immigrants' high birthrates. Contrary to the widespread view that the U.S. has a shortage of native-born professionals, Beck cites a 1995 survey that found America producing a huge surplus of Ph.D.s in science and engineering fields. He calls for a revamped system reducing immigration to the levels of the "great wave" between 1924 and 1965.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Roy Beck, the Washington editor of the journal The Social Contract, argues for cutting immigration on the grounds that it contributes to the falling real wages that breed deteriorating communities and crumbling families--the "crisis of the middle class." He also suggests that immigration has increased the gap between the rich and the poor, driving down the wages of inner-city blacks and others at the bottom of the labor market. Beck goes further and makes the case that immigration harms every level of the economy, including the high-end, high technology sector.
From Publishers Weekly
Among recent anti-immigration tracts, this slashing, sure-to-be controversial manifesto by Beck, Washington, D.C., editor of Social Contract, advances a number of new arguments. His main thrust is that current high levels of immigration serve the interest of a small elite, principally corporations and other employers that benefit from low-wage labor. The losers, in Beck's analysis, are not only America's poor and working class, forced to compete against immigrants, but also the broad middle class, because the labor glut, by reducing pressure on employers to share with employees the results of increased productivity, leads to depressed wages, reduced employee benefits and mounting economic insecurity. Hit particularly hard, Beck shows, are African Americans, because many employers meet minority hiring targets by employing immigrants instead of them. He also blames environmental damage on overpopulation caused partly by immigrants' high birthrates. Contrary to the widespread view that the U.S. has a shortage of native-born professionals, Beck cites a 1995 survey that found America producing a huge surplus of Ph.D.s in science and engineering fields. He calls for a revamped system reducing immigration to the levels of the "great wave" between 1924 and 1965.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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