Finding My Rosie the Riveter<br />I had always been told that automation, not trade, was the reason factory workers like Shannon were losing their jobs.<br />On March 15, I sat in a Cracker Barrel in Zionsville, Ind., a half-hour north of a factory in Indianapolis that was moving jobs to Mexico.<br />I had always been told by economists, diplomats and academics<br />that workers like Shannon were the few who had to be sacrificed so that the rest of us could be better off: They were the martyrs of globalization.<br />Sometimes I met her at the end of her shift — at 10 p.m. — at a Burger King nearby and drove home with her.
