But with increasing prosperity Chinese workers want more pay, shorter hours and more benefits, just as Taiwanese, Japanese and South Korean workers did before them.
Companies everywhere are thriving and sharing this prosperity with workers clamoring for raises.
"He was helped by both a labor movement and a government committed to bringing prosperity to workers," Rolf said.
"Liberalism once taught that unions would ensure lasting prosperity for workers," Romney said at Lansing Community College.
I'd be a lot more interested in my own reward than the long-term prosperity of my workers.
Politicians, union leaders, and the local press eagerly laid the blame for lack of prosperity on Asian workers.
But the union says Caterpillar, the world's largest producer of earth-moving equipment, is in no way uncompetitive and should be sharing its prosperity with its workers.
Above all, the success of the postwar American economy demonstrates that, contrary to today's conservative orthodoxy, you can have prosperity without demeaning workers and coddling the rich.
Claire Buchan, a White House spokeswoman, said that making the cuts permanent will "promote prosperity for American workers" and that older employees can expect full benefits.
You know, things like the safety valve of the frontier, the siren song of America's egalitarian civic religion, the relative prosperity of American workers, and the vitality of U.S. capitalism.
