Milliken

2000-05-08 Thread Doug Henwood
Brad De Long wrote: I pointed out that Roger Milliken--American textile capital--thinks that AGOA is not in his material interest, suggesting that (as I believe) the beneficiaries from AGOA will be (among others) African labor. Milliken is pretty alone in his industry, as far as I know. Most

Milliken

2000-05-08 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
Wouldn't it behoove us to find out whether the firms that will make the textiles etc. are Northern Corps. out to simply set up shop to capture rents from the wage differential. If they are, say, US corps. then the suggestion that some sort of levy or tax on their "import"[ation] into the US so

Roger Milliken

2000-04-14 Thread Louis Proyect
ecord conversation. "You and I," he says, "are about to go on deep background, OK?" What's the problem? Something that has been whispered about on the left for some time now: the suspicion that Roger Milliken--billionaire textile magnate from South Carolina, founding member of t