Think As Historian: THINK AS A HISTORIAN: COMPARE POINTS Of vIEW

Attitudes toward globalization depend in large part on perspective, or point of view.

Read the following two statements on globalization. Explain in your own words what each one means. Then describe the point of view of each author and explain the significance of that point of view in evaluating the statement as a source.

1. “We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated—but that’s the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.”

—Phil Condit, Former Chairman and CEO of

Boeing, 1999

2. “What’s going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We’ve got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.”

—James P. Hoffa, General President of

the Teamsters Union, 1998