This position became a model, rhetorically, at least, for revivifying moribund social-democratic parties everywhere. Imitators of Clinton were elected in all the major industrial countries of the West: Wim Kok in the Netherlands in 1994, Tony Blair in the United Kingdom and Lionel Jospin in France in 1997, Gerhard Schröder in Germany in 1998. But there was a problem: It was never clear how these left-behind workers were supposed to be protected, especially since globalization was accompanied everywhere by a hollowing out of welfare programs and an atrophy of trade unionism. Helping the less
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