The film is about the loss of American jobs to low-wage foreign competition, covering the phenomenon of outsourcing in manufacturing and high-paying white-collar jobs.

A more useful distinction would be between those who are forced to compete against workers in the third world and those protected from such low-wage competition.

"This is a case where the labor forces who fear low-wage competition have won out over the agricultural interests," a European diplomat said.

Fears that low-wage competition is driving down U.S. wages have a real basis in both theory and fact.

IN FACT, the low-wage competition to be reckoned with is no longer Japan but third world countries.

The broom makers, unlike most segments of American industry, are now partly protected from low-wage Mexican competition by quotas and sizable tariffs.

Union leaders in industrialized countries are making low-wage competition from China a political issue.

For him, low-wage competition from abroad is by far labor's biggest challenge.

Textile mills that couldn't sell their products because of low-wage foreign competition turned to their own "pipe-rack" outlets to dispose of production.

External low-wage competition, coupled with other factors of the Great Depression in later years, led to the collapse of the state's two main industries: shoes and textiles.