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Why we have globalization to thank for Thanksgiving

  • Written by Farok J. Contractor, Distinguished Professor of Management & Global Business, Rutgers University

As Americans sit down to their Thanksgiving Day feasts, some may recall the story of the “Pilgrim Fathers” who founded one of the first English settlements in North America in 1620, at what is today the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

The history we know is one of English settlers seeking religious freedom in a New World but instead fi...

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