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Monday, October 08, 2007

 

More jobs to India


Are all our tech jobs going overseas to poorer and impoverished nations? Yeah, they are. Why? Well Americans are lazy I believe and we don’t feel that we are behind technology wise, but in fact we are. And if we do not get our act together, there may come a time when we may need to move out of this country to get the best and highest paying jobs.

“ACCORDING to a confidential memorandum, I.B.M. is cutting 13,000 jobs in the United States and in Europe and creating 14,000 jobs in India. From 2000 to 2015, an estimated three million American jobs will have been outsourced; one in 10 technology jobs will leave these shores by the end of this year. Stories like these have aroused a primal fear in the Western public: that they might soon need to line up outside the Indian Embassy for work visas and their children will have to learn Hindi” (Suketu Mehta)

If you have ever called up Dell for tech assistance and got someone on the phone who speaks English but with some kind of Indian accent, then you should already know where the jobs are going. And wail these aren’t the big time tech jobs that Americans would want; they are a solid starting point. Technical assistance is always needed for PC’s and Servers and companies like IBM and Dell are outsourcing more and more jobs. They don’t have to pay as much and they get the same service from there employees. India is not a super power like the United States; in fact 40% of India’s population is illiterate and lives below the poverty line.

But in Bangalore, property is selling high and people have jobs and the tech businesses is booming. It is a sharp contrast from one section of India to another.

“Over the last quarter century, as hundreds of corporations have moved in to take advantage of Bangalore's temperate and dust-free climate, cheap housing, and work force educated in information technology (or IT, the popular shorthand here), economic growth has bred a new set of woes. In that time, the city has quadrupled in size, real estate prices have quintupled, and a once gracious metropolis has begun to choke on its own pollution and gridlock” (Richard Rapaport)

Sounds familiar, it sounds like any major US city during the industrial revolution. And this is India’s revolution, it’s not industrial but technical and many US industries and companies are helping by outsourcing jobs there.

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Comments:
A great post, nice links.

Not all of our jobs are going to be shipped overseas. But we need to be prepared for a real fight to keep good jobs here at home.

Will we have a big middle class in twenty years? Will a working class family be able to live the life that that a Detroit UAW job once offered? Or does globalization lead inevitably towards increasing extremes of wealth and poverty?
 
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