Offshore benefits?
at 5:28pm
on Thursday, 25th March 2004
Just read an interesting Article in USA Today regaling the benefits of offshoring programming jobs from the US to India and China. The author, Kevin Maney, adopts the position that "This is absolutely not a zero-sum game," arguing that that such moves benefit both those who are able to pick up these jobs, and, ultimately, those who have lost them.
The issue seems to be gaining in prominence - John Edwards' relatively protectionist approach became a central plank of his Presidential bid, whilst in the last week the Prime Minister has argued that economic liberalism now lies at the heart of the progressive agenda. Does this extend to what some regard as the exploitation of low-paid foreign workers? Or is the author right in suggesting such moves are both economically desirable and wholly ethical?...Some of the questions likely to be addressed in forthcoming work on Offshore Enthics
Just read an interesting Article in USA Today regaling the benefits of offshoring programming jobs from the US to India and China. The author, Kevin Maney, adopts the position that "This is absolutely not a zero-sum game," arguing that that such moves benefit both those who are able to pick up these jobs, and, ultimately, those who have lost them.
The issue seems to be gaining in prominence - John Edwards' relatively protectionist approach became a central plank of his Presidential bid, whilst in the last week the Prime Minister has argued that economic liberalism now lies at the heart of the progressive agenda. Does this extend to what some regard as the exploitation of low-paid foreign workers? Or is the author right in suggesting such moves are both economically desirable and wholly ethical?...Some of the questions likely to be addressed in forthcoming work on Offshore Enthics
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