Contents
Introduction to Effects of globalization & business outsourcing- Manufacturing jobs exported
- Can trade create US jobs?
- It’s in the mix
- Production Engineering ships out
- New Centres of Excellence
- The big move business process outsourcing
- Not PC
- Conclusion on effects of globalization
Description
In the perennial debate over globalization and employment, pundits, politicos and workers agree that millions of US jobs are at stake. But there are two sticking points: Does globalization create or destroy all that employment? And what kinds of jobs will be left for Americans as US firms export labor functions, including many highly skilled jobs once thought impossible to export? The trend toward globalization is accelerating. US foreign investment in other countries jumped from $468 billion to $827 billion just between 1997 and 1999, according to the Center for Strategic & International Studies. If American workers want to understand how their occupations could evolve over the coming decades, they need insight into the complex dynamics of labor globalization.
