How does free trade affect jobs?

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Question: How does free trade affect jobs?
Position‹2 of 3›: Free trade destroys jobs

This position holds that free trade destroys jobs, because producers exposed to lower-cost competition contract or close, and the work lost in those industries and the places built around them is not replaced by whatever opens elsewhere.

Supporting arguments · 2

Exposure to lower-cost production closes the industries that cannot match it
The jobs lost and the jobs gained are not in the same places or open to the same people