Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:41:38 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: Outsourcing (was: Re: AUT: Caffentzis article)


Tom Messmer wrote:

>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

Ha, hi there. That commentary was based mostly on a piece I did for 
The Nation, which is at 
<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040322&c=5&s=cavanagh>. 
Basically the argument is that estimates of outsourced jobs in the 
U.S. account for only a small portion of the jobs gap in the recovery 
- about 300,000 or so outsourced jobs vs. a deficiency of 8 million 
jobs (based on historical recovery averages).

This morning's report of 308,000 new jobs in the U.S. in March may - 
*may* - mark the end of the jobless phase of the recovery. We'll need 
a few more months to tell.

Doug


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