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From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 17:59:19 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:24:27 To:dave () farber net Cc:Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net> Subject: Re: [IP] Now, a course on outsourcing: MIT shows the way]
Subject: [india-gii] Now, a course on outsourcing: MIT shows the way Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:03:16 -0500 From: Manjunath, Bharadwaj (Cognizant) <MBharadw () chn cognizant com> To: India Gii <india-gii () cpsr org> Now, a course on outsourcing: MIT shows the way S Rajagopalan Washington, March 2 http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_596032,001300460000.htm Outsourcing is here to stay. And the tacit acknowledgement comes from the redoubtable Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by starting a regular course on outsourcing at its famed Alfred P Sloan School of Management.
... PLEASE! Stop confusing "outsourcing"-- which has been a common and generally-accepted/acceptable business practice, probably since the beginning of "business" ... with "OFFSHORING"! There is a WORLD (so to speak) of difference between "OUTSOURCING" versus "OFFSHORING" -- which is what has been done to low-wage, politically-powerless U.S. workers/jobs for several decades. But such offshoring has now started to hit middle-income, well-educated, politically-aware U.S. [former] workers and their jobs ... and is fueling politicians' new-found worries about its extensive inequities and abuses (working conditions, environmental, etc.). --jim ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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