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[internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org (Edward Wesolowski)]

Good point, David. But there's a class aspect the Business Week article notes:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_05/b3818001.htm
"Until now, the adverse impact of free trade has been confined largely to 
blue-collar workers. But if more politically powerful middle-class 
Americans take a hit as white-collar jobs move offshore, opposition to free 
trade could broaden."
It's probably an inevitable trend, but it's disturbing, I mean, being able 
to coordinate activities from here in China or India, or Budapest.
Ed W.

At 02:19 PM 1/31/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Something to remember about "family and friends in the manufacturing area"
>that lost their jobs in North Carolina--it is just a long established trend.
>They got their jobs when labor became too expensive in the North East.
>Agricultural workers were willing to work for lower wages than Northerners
>in North Carolina, I guess to get out of the fields. The process will repeat
>itself when the latest recipients of those jobs want higher wages than those
>in an even less developed country.
>
>David
>
>On 1/31/03 7:31 AM, "Roger Austin" <raustin3 AT nc.rr.com> 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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