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Globalization Decimating US I.T. Jobs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-knew-that dept.

mrraven writes, "According to Ronald Reagan's former deputy secretary of the treasury in this article in Counterpunch, globalization is destroying US I.T. jobs. From the article: 'During the past five years (January 01 – January 06), the information sector of the US economy lost 644,000 jobs, or 17.4 per cent of its work force. Computer systems design and related work lost 105,000 jobs, or 8.5 per cent of its work force. Clearly, jobs offshoring is not creating jobs in computers and information technology.'" Paul Craig Roberts quotes a number of formerly pro-globalization economists who are now seeing the light of the harrowing of the US middle class. It's not limited to I.T. Roberts quotes one recanting economist, Alan Blinder, as saying that 42–56 million American service-sector jobs are susceptible to offshoring.

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  1. Re:Speak for yourself I never liked globalization by Descalzo · · Score: 0, Troll
    Noam Chomsky and Amy Goodman? If they made it to the mainstream media, what would they talk about? "Well here we are with more news the mainstream media won't.... Oh, wait."

    Without their self-righteous self-appointed position as the guardians of all things outside the mainstream, they are nothing.

    --
    I cried real tears when Li Mu Bai died.
  2. Re:Speak for yourself I never liked globalization by Afrosheen · · Score: 0, Troll

    What? I didn't think Manuel was still in Mexico this late in the century. He's probably already living in Tejas or California or pretty much anywhere there's a Tyson Food plant nearby, feeding his wife and 6 children, blaring oompa loompa music from his big truck with tiny tires as he rolls down the street in his barrio.

      You will know Manuel when you spot him driving. He'll have a chrome sticker of the city he lives in's skyline on the back window along with his last name in giant gothic letters. Rodriguez! Espinoza! Nike symbol!

  3. HAH! White Color Jobs! by Petersko · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Outsourcing is certainly not new, however one could argue that massive outsourcing is new for white color jobs that require a significant level of very specific education. Traditional manufacturing jobs do not necessarily require a university degree."

    So are you saying non-whites are incapable of reaching that significant level of education, and should therefore seek traidtional manufacturing jobs?

    I know it's a typo. I just find it hilarious. Thanks - you made my day.