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[Edward Wesolowski <ids AT idisplay.com>]

"Digital Capitalism," Dan Schiller, U of Illinois, makes his heads and 
tails out of the trend towards an IT that lets off shore jobs (chip design, 
mfg, textile mfg, etc...) happen. I'm not finding it an "easy read," but he 
makes an interesting point.
Ed Wesolowski


At 07:31 AM 1/31/03 -0500, you wrote:
>  Git a grip. Compared to our family and friends in the manufacturing area 
> who have permanently lost their low paying jobs to latin america and 
> beyond, we have nothing to whine about. The IT bubble silliness caused a 
> lot of IT workers to consider themselves much more valuable than they 
> were. Businesses paid much too much for IT staff and woke up to that fact 
> over the last few years.
>  For those IT workers with moderate skills or skills in only one area, I 
> would suggest they take advantage of the continuing education offered in 
> this area. Consider yourself lucky that you have this when you could be a 
> mill worker in Valdese who has no such advantage.
>  Was the IT boom a hoax? Absolutely. The bubble was a fluke and now 
> people are pissed off about business doing what they have always done 
> (i.e., hiring the cheapest labor they can hire.) It just so happens that 
> it is now in our area. Git used to it or move on to something else.
>  Roger (I really feel bitchy this morning for some reason...)
>
> zman wrote:
> > This is one of the scariest trends to come around since they passed NAFTA.
> > I was hoping the IT industry was gonna rebound within a year or two, but
> > with this I think it'll still get worse before/if it gets better.
> > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> >
> > > .... without you:
> > >
> > > http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_05/b3818001.htm
>
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