[lbo-talk] IT, Other White Collar Jobs Floating To Cheaper Locales

[Dwayne Monroe]

[If even the most privileged members of the working
population - college educated white collar and
technical workers - find themselves marginalized,
de-skilled and, perhaps, impoverished by offshore
outsourcing, among other factors, what will it mean
for the peaceful maintainence of the capitalist
order?]

U.S. government turns up heat on offshore tech work 

 
By Daniel S. Levine and Kent Hoover
San Francisco Business Times 

A 2002 Forrester Research study predicted 3.3 million
U.S. service industry jobs -- including 1 million IT
jobs -- will move to other countries over the next 15
years. A separate report in April from Deloitte
Research estimated the world's 100 largest financial
services companies will transfer 2 million jobs over
the next five years to low-cost countries.

Already five states, including Connecticut, New
Jersey, Maryland, Washington and Missouri are
considering legislation that would prohibit the use of
offshore outsourcing on state contracts. And Rep. Don
Manzullo, an Illinois Republican who chairs the House
Small Business Committee, held hearings on the
outsourcing of service sector jobs June 18, as concern
grows that white-collar jobs are starting to follow
manufacturing jobs overseas.

"We are experiencing a coring out of American
manufacturing and service jobs," said Manzullo. "At
this rate, no one will have good enough jobs to be
able to afford products and services in our country,
no matter where the work originates."

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full at 

http://famulus.msnbc.com/famuluscom/bizjournal06-30-010423.asp?bizj=SF#body

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