Offshoring - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/offshoring/?source=rss&aim=offshoring en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT Obama backs off on big business By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/13/another_obama_promise_broken/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/13/another_obama_promise_broken/index.html?source=rss In May, the president promised to end a tax break on American companies operating overseas. Uh, never mind Who owns that offshore sucking sound? By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/02/22/outsourcing_patent/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/02/22/outsourcing_patent/index.html?source=rss Accenture gets a patent for a "rapid transfer of knowledge" technique. Don't expect rich country workers to applaud Bangalore offshores to Silicon Valley By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/07/02/reverse_offshoring/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/07/02/reverse_offshoring/index.html?source=rss Top talent is getting too pricey in India, says a start-up CEO. Is Barack Obama an economic nationalist? By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/06/20/obama_india/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/06/20/obama_india/index.html?source=rss Was his campaign's attack on Hillary Clinton's ties to India a macaca moment? Or a chance to tell the world how he really feels about globalization? Offshoring -- where it stops, nobody knows Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/05/16/south_korean_offshoring/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/05/16/south_korean_offshoring/index.html?source=rss Production moving overseas, good jobs disappearing, national angst upwelling... South Korea sings the grownup globalization blues Next challenge for outsourcing: Ingenuity By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/12/06/itpaa/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/12/06/itpaa/index.html?source=rss Could a staunch opponent of offshoring IT jobs be mellowing a bit too soon? Programmer, or engineer? By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/10/08/matloff/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/10/08/matloff/index.html?source=rss Finding fault with the ACM's big offshoring study, eight months later Indian programmer woes By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/09/14/cobol/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/09/14/cobol/index.html?source=rss Stuck inside of Bangalore with the COBOL blues again. A tale of two econobloggers By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/08/30/mankiw_setser/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/08/30/mankiw_setser/index.html?source=rss A lame I-told-you-so on offshoring from Greg Mankiw Jobs to where the need is greatest By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/03/24/letter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/03/24/letter/index.html?source=rss A letter on offshoring reeking of hope. Surviving American capitalism By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/03/23/blinder/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/03/23/blinder/index.html?source=rss If climate change and peak oil don't get us, offshoring will. The data on software jobs By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/02/23/acm_2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/02/23/acm_2/index.html?source=rss Programmers, database administrators, going down. Everybody else, up. Offshoring: Not so bad after all By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/02/23/acm/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/02/23/acm/index.html?source=rss Could there really be more software jobs now than during the dot-com boom? No race to the bottom By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/02/16/offshoring_2/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/02/16/offshoring_2/index.html?source=rss The declining importance of cheap labor in the high-tech economy. Business Week hearts outsourcing By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/01/23/businessweek/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/01/23/businessweek/index.html?source=rss "The future of outsourcing" or the future of hype? Lessons from George Orwell on how to talk about offshoring By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2005/12/14/mankiw/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2005/12/14/mankiw/index.html?source=rss Former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors N. Gregory Mankiw has some advice for free trade proselytizers. Lou Dobbs is angry and he's not going to take it anymore By Andrew Leonard Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2004/09/09/dobbs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2004/09/09/dobbs/index.html?source=rss In his new book about outsourcing, the television journalist tells us that he is shocked, SHOCKED, that corporations are treating American workers like crap. India's advice to the U.S.: Invest in yourself By Katharine Mieszkowski Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/20/offshoring_backlash/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/20/offshoring_backlash/index.html?source=rss Executives at Indian outsourcing companies are aware there's a political backlash in the U.S. against offshored jobs, but they're not too worried: They know that the cold logic of profit is on their side. No sweatshop here By Katharine Mieszkowski Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/12/inside_the_offshore/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/12/inside_the_offshore/index.html?source=rss At Webodrome, on the ninth floor of a building in downtown Mumbai, programmers exult in their freedom. When offshoring goes bad By Sam Williams Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/06/offshoring_bad/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/06/offshoring_bad/index.html?source=rss Not all trips to India are blessed by Krishna: A case study of outsourcing gone awry. The global market at work By Katharine Mieszkowski Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/06/outsource_myself/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/06/outsource_myself/index.html?source=rss Bangalore resident Rachna Asirvatham has a 56K modem, a bookcase full of software manuals ... and a bunch of American clients. How India is saving capitalism By Katharine Mieszkowski Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/01/collabnet/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/01/collabnet/index.html?source=rss For one Silicon Valley company, hiring Indian programmers wasn't about greed, it was about survival. A special report from Chennai, globalization's ground zero. Amazing Trade, how elite the sound By Joyce McGreevy Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/col/mcgreevy/2004/03/22/offshoring_gospel/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/col/mcgreevy/2004/03/22/offshoring_gospel/index.html?source=rss "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the efficiency of the Board. They are sampling better vintage now that jobs have been offshored." I am Indian. I am American. I do customer support. By Sumana Harihareswara Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/10/call_center/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/10/call_center/index.html?source=rss My cousins and I do the same kind of work. But their parents stayed in India, while mine moved to the United States. What's labor going to do about offshoring? By Katharine Mieszkowski Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/01/27/amy_dean/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/01/27/amy_dean/index.html?source=rss The increasing move of white-collar jobs overseas is inevitable, says one longtime Silicon Valley activist. So the fight for workers' rights has to go global.