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Date: Monday, September 01, 2008 3:46 PM
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Jim Hightower had a very good commentary on outsourcing. You can listen to it
by clicking this link, or you can read it below.
sound file
http://www.jimhightower.com/sites/jimhightower.civicactions.net/files/31_16_rnc.mp3
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Posted by Jim Hightower
Just when you think that, surely, the offshoring craze has peaked, here come
more stories of "Globalization Gone Wild."
McClatchy Company, the California-based newspaper chain, has announced that it
is outsourcing some of its jobs to India. Copyediting and design work for
certain sections of its Miami Herald newspaper are being shipped to a New
Delhi corporation with the mindboggling name of Mindworks Global Media.
Ironically, part of the work to be handled 8,400 miles away from the Herald's
readers is editing and design for a weekly section on community news.
But outsourcing is not just an American game. Waterford, the renown crystal
maker that has been in Dublin, Ireland, since 1783, has built its reputation
on the fine skills of its Irish glass masters. Now, however, it has cut its
Dublin workforce in half and moved about a fifth of its production to Poland
and the Czech Republic. The pricey, quintessentially Irish glassware -- from
chandeliers to champagne flutes --is being made in Eastern Europe by workers
paid a fourth of what the Dublin artisans were paid. Waterford s CEO says that
prices for the faux Irish crystal will not be lowered, and insists that
consumers won t care where the crystal is made.
Maybe, but do couples care where their baby is made? Apparently not.
There s a growing global industry of outsourced pregnancies, with clinics in
India making available young, very-low-income, local women to be surrogate
mothers for well-off, infertile couples from America, Taiwan, Britain, and
elsewhere. The couples provide the sperm, pay a fraction of the going rate for
surrogate moms in the U.S., and -- viola! -- the "wombs for rent" clinics
deliver a baby.
It s all part of the globalization follies, where the wealthy can find workers
at cut-rate costs to do any sort of labor they need.
"Miami Herald to send some editing, design work to India," Austin American
Statesman, December 29, 2007
"Miami Herald to outsource ad work to India," www.miamiherald.com, December
277, 2007
"McClatchy s Miami Herald taps India workers," www.bizjournal.com, December
28, 2007
"Further outsourcing could cut into Waterford Crystal s cachet," Austin
American Statesman, December 2, 2007
"Surrogate business makes birth the latest job outsourced to India," Austin
American Statesman, January 1, 2008
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