Producer in Brasil Daniel Rubio Geraldo Off Line Geraldo da Souza was sacked by his employers, Ford Brazil, on December 22, 1998, along with two thousand fellow workers at Ford's Sao Paulo car plant. They'd done nothing wrong - except to entrust their livelihoods to a vast multinational employer bound to the vagaries of the global economy and the company's head-office strategists. When the Russian economy went into tailspin in early '98, international capital - fearing repercussions in other emerging markets - fulfilled its own prophecy by withdrawing from Brazil: the government was forced to raise interest rates, local consumption and production fell, and Geraldo lost his job. Problems without borders require solutions without borders. But Geraldo himself has his hands full, with a home to keep (indeed, without a job he may soon have to borrow against it), work to seek, and protest ma...
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