Living on the Fault Line

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As a microcosm of "Main Street America," this program focuses on the self-proclaimed City of the Future? San Diego, California? Which has hitched its star to the promise of aggressive new information-age companies and rapid globalization. Companies that have moved manufacturing operations to Mexico are examined, along with the negative effects such moves have had on Mexican and American workers. In San Diego, we meet winners like the entrepreneurs who are creating their own tomorrow, as well as those Americans who are having trouble earning a secure tomorrow by loyalty and hard work. We see the high-tech elite as well as blue-collar factory workers and white-collar middle managers, forced into downward mobility or temp and part-time jobs. One special feature of this program is the personal stories of couples caught in the "time bind" of the New Economy, the competing poles of family, home, children, and two careers.

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59 min 59 sec

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