Zócalo Public Square

Why is globalization disparaged as a boon to very few, at the expense of most? This was the question at the heart of a lively Zócalo/UCLA event entitled “Does Globalization Only Serve Elites?” before a packed house at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles. Moderator Steven Greenhouse, former New York Times labor reporter and author of The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, was joined by UCLA Anderson economist Jerry Nickelsburg, business and policy entrepreneur Kati Suominen, UCLA legal scholar and labor policy expert Katherine Stone, and Los Angeles World Trade Center President Stephen Cheung in discussing who wins and who loses in globalization.