Exposing federal sponsorship of job loss: the Whitehall plant closing campaign and 'runaway plant' reform - 1 (1st)

In the early 1990s, Whitehall Laboratories - an over-the-counter pharmaceutical maker - announced it would be shutting down its plant in Elkhart, Indiana, and moving to Puerto Rico.

At the time, the closure sent 800 people to the unemployment line.

Exploring a number of subjects of significance for US labour and economic policy - especially the role of tax policy in the relocation of jobs from the US to Puerto Rico - this study of the Whitehall closure disproves the myth that markets will take of care of workers and communities, showing that basic economics only concerned with market forces and not with equity, environmental and worker protections.