This is a very myopic view of exported manufacturing jobs. While I would not argue that manufacturing jobs exported overseas permit those workers to obtain and

This is a very myopic view of exported manufacturing jobs. While I would not argue that manufacturing jobs exported overseas permit those workers to obtain and maintain a US middle class lifestyle, I know for a certain fact that these jobs allow them access to a standard of living they would otherwise have no access to. If you think the hard lives of the third world urban manufacturing workers are hard, remember that most of them fled the abject and overwhelming poverty of rural agricultural areas and see their new jobs and lifestyle as a substantial step up. Do you think western manufacturing workers have a right to their relatively luxurious lifestyle even if maintaining those jobs in the west doom countless millions in developing countries to a life of hard to imagine levels of deprivation, struggle and pain?