Whatever the objective economic details this time (and they are not as one-sided as they are sometimes understood to be), one is tempted to search for similar undercurrents of estrangement during the years that led to the end of the two previous episodes. There are deep and difficult questions about globalisation reversals, which include but are not limited to economic issues.
OECD data suggest that the United States and Canada have been more successful than the other industrialized countries in achieving these adjustments and, therefore, in maintaining aggregate employment growth on a par with labor force growth in the face of differential rates of job growth by occupations.