2.03.2004
in ppl & env we talked today about the offshoring of manufacturing jobs, but what of the offshoreing of knowledge and service jobs. foreign markets and economies are booming and growing far beyond the rate of us (the united states). what are we to do when all the jobs, except the CEOs, are gone?
...the idea of education as a lifetime income enhancement...
The Digital Death Rattle of the American Middle Class
Dion Dennis via theyblinked
With recent and dramatic reductions in the cost of telecommunications and computers, it's apparent that key elites have decided to iterate and extend the cost cutting strategies of the 1970s and 80s by moving not only manufacturing jobs, but customer service, software and chip research and development, financial services, back office support, and other "symbolic knowledge worker" positions permanently off shore. The following chart, adapted from a February 3, 2003 Business Week article, and from a webpage for the PBS current events magazine NOW, draws the contours of this trend:
...If, in order to maximize short term profit and gain market share, transnational corporations find it expeditious to hollow-out the U.S. middle class, by exploiting every device from tax abatements to outsourcing the jobs of symbolic analysts, so be it. And if in doing so, the social and biological quality of the environment and lived experience deteriorates, that's the way it goes.
...double the cost of tuition, as an incentive for students to quickly finish their academic careers:
Mr. Hug said that if tuition were increased, students would speed through their academic programs and spend less time in school. The reverse is more likely ... If Maryland imposes barriers to higher education for the middle and lower classes and fails to educate a workforce that can meet the needs of Maryland's employers, those industries will move ...
Rising costs and funding cuts are resegregating higher education, not by color but by class. Low-income students find it hard to pay for a degree.
Jane Bryant Quinn
no degree, no job even if you have a degree, class warefare - is this the future? or is it an overreaching prediction?
...the idea of education as a lifetime income enhancement...
The Digital Death Rattle of the American Middle Class
Dion Dennis via theyblinked
With recent and dramatic reductions in the cost of telecommunications and computers, it's apparent that key elites have decided to iterate and extend the cost cutting strategies of the 1970s and 80s by moving not only manufacturing jobs, but customer service, software and chip research and development, financial services, back office support, and other "symbolic knowledge worker" positions permanently off shore. The following chart, adapted from a February 3, 2003 Business Week article, and from a webpage for the PBS current events magazine NOW, draws the contours of this trend:
| Globalization and the Projected Exodus of White Collar Jobs from the U.S. | |||
| Field | 2005 | 2015 | |
| Architecture | 32,000 | 184,000 | |
| Art & Design | 6,000 | 30,000 | |
| Business Operations | 61,000 | 348,000 | |
| Computer | 109,000 | 473,000 | |
| Legal | 14,000 | 75,000 | |
| Life Sciences | 3,700 | 37,000 | |
| Management | 37,000 | 288,000 | |
| Office support/Sales | 295,000 | 1,700,000 | |
| Total | 588,000 | 3,300,000 | |
...If, in order to maximize short term profit and gain market share, transnational corporations find it expeditious to hollow-out the U.S. middle class, by exploiting every device from tax abatements to outsourcing the jobs of symbolic analysts, so be it. And if in doing so, the social and biological quality of the environment and lived experience deteriorates, that's the way it goes.
...double the cost of tuition, as an incentive for students to quickly finish their academic careers:
Mr. Hug said that if tuition were increased, students would speed through their academic programs and spend less time in school. The reverse is more likely ... If Maryland imposes barriers to higher education for the middle and lower classes and fails to educate a workforce that can meet the needs of Maryland's employers, those industries will move ...
Rising costs and funding cuts are resegregating higher education, not by color but by class. Low-income students find it hard to pay for a degree.
Jane Bryant Quinn
no degree, no job even if you have a degree, class warefare - is this the future? or is it an overreaching prediction?