From: Tom Messmer <messmer-AT-endpage.com>
Subject: Re: Outsourcing (was: Re: AUT: Caffentzis article)
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 08:09:59 -0800


John,
Doug H's LBO website has radio archives, and there's a pretty  
interesting discussion of outsourcing on there, plus he's probably  
lurking on here to answer EACH and EVERY annoying question we pose, no  
matter how irrelevant or tangential:
http://shout.lbo-talk.org:8000/content/lbo/RadioArchive/2004/ 
04_03_25.pls
;)
Tom

On Apr 2, 2004, at 7:47 AM, john wrote:

>
> On 30 Mar 2004, at 19:18, Nate Holdren wrote:
>
>
>> Do white workers in the US really see flags waving and listen to  
>> diatribes against the browner skin toned and think "hmm, this could  
>> mean a decent job for me...". Fear is definitely ever-present in this  
>> country, but I'm with Chris that in my experience it's less an  
>> externally directed fear and more a fear of loss of wages and ensuing  
>> financial ruin.
>
> I'm not in the US, but my impression, from reading a lot of I.T.  
> websites and forums, is that there is a lot of fear, in the IT sector,  
> of outsourcing. It's pretty much the number one topic at the moment.  
> This fear is expressed as a fear of other countries (India especially)  
> and that's the link between the external threat and redundancy at  
> home. See, for example, this discussion from Slashdot:
> http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/02/1331200.shtml? 
> tid=103&tid=187&tid=99
>
> Here in the UK, there's also a lot of talk about outsourcing, but it's  
> playing out differently. For one thing, there's a certain amount of  
> outsourcing from London to the rest of the country. For another, it's  
> very much about unskilled, rote labour (call centres) - whereas the  
> fears expressed in the US seem to be more from skilled computer  
> professionals.
>
> Anyone got any good reccemendations for reading on outsourcing?
>
> John
>
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