Outsourcing

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  • Jobs to where the need is greatest

    A letter on offshoring reeking of hope.
    By Andrew Leonard March 24, 2006

  • The data on software jobs

    Programmers, database administrators, going down. Everybody else, up.
    By Andrew Leonard February 23, 2006

  • Offshoring: Not so bad after all

    Could there really be more software jobs now than during the dot-com boom?
    By Andrew Leonard February 23, 2006

  • Democrats ruining America's future

    Arabs want to manage U.S. ports? The horror!
    By Andrew Leonard February 21, 2006

  • No race to the bottom

    The declining importance of cheap labor in the high-tech economy.
    By Andrew Leonard February 16, 2006

  • Out of work? Go to grad school.

    The decline and fall of the Silicon Valley engineer?
    By Andrew Leonard February 14, 2006

  • Business Week hearts outsourcing

    "The future of outsourcing" or the future of hype?
    By Andrew Leonard January 23, 2006

  • The boneheaded carnality of man

    Will China overtake the U.S.? Biblical prophecy says yes
    By Andrew Leonard January 19, 2006

  • Lessons from George Orwell on how to talk about offshoring

    Former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors N. Gregory Mankiw has some advice for free trade proselytizers.
    By Andrew Leonard December 14, 2005

  • Why "Made in China" is good news for the U.S.

    The boom in the Chinese microchip industry has Americans worrying about lost jobs and national security. We should be praising it as a model of how globalization is supposed to work.
    By Andrew Leonard August 3, 2005

  • The world in the iPod

    The microchip that runs Apple's popular music player is made in India, Taiwan, China and Silicon Valley. Is this an example of how globalization works to everyone's benefit -- or a sign that the world economy is about to roll over America?
    By Andrew Leonard June 3, 2005

  • "Dude, did I steal your job?"

    "Debugging Indian Computer Programmers" is a lighthearted, first-person look at a touchy subject.
    By Andrew Leonard January 24, 2005

  • When technology became cool again

    Google, Firefox and digital cameras gave us reason to cheer in 2004. Then again, outsourcing, global warming and the politics of stem cells proved there is a dark side.
    By Andrew Leonard, Farhad Manjoo and Katharine Mieszkowski December 27, 2004

  • Lou Dobbs is angry and he's not going to take it anymore

    In his new book about outsourcing, the television journalist tells us that he is shocked, SHOCKED, that corporations are treating American workers like crap.
    By Andrew Leonard September 9, 2004

  • Subcontracting the hunt for bin Laden

    The twisted relationship between the Bush administration and Pakistan's military regime, driven by a mutual desire for survival, is undermining the war on terror.
    By Husain Haqqani August 17, 2004

  • Silicon Valley is the best place ever in the whole world

    Inspired by Google, the high-tech capital's boosters have decided that it's boring to be pessimistic.
    By Farhad Manjoo May 27, 2004

  • India's advice to the U.S.: Invest in yourself

    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.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 20, 2004

  • Outsourcing the war

    With more private contractors dying and disappearing in Iraq, some begin to question the rules of engagement.
    By P.W. Singer April 16, 2004

  • Warriors for hire in Iraq

    More than 15,000 employees of private military contractors, from giant Halliburton to tiny commando firms, are working, fighting and dying alongside U.S. soldiers. But who calls the shots in an outsourced war?
    By P.W. Singer April 15, 2004

  • No sweatshop here

    At Webodrome, on the ninth floor of a building in downtown Mumbai, programmers exult in their freedom.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 12, 2004

  • When offshoring goes bad

    Not all trips to India are blessed by Krishna: A case study of outsourcing gone awry.
    By Sam Williams April 6, 2004

  • The global market at work

    Bangalore resident Rachna Asirvatham has a 56K modem, a bookcase full of software manuals ... and a bunch of American clients.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 6, 2004

  • How India is saving capitalism

    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.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 1, 2004

  • Amazing Trade, how elite the sound

    "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the efficiency of the Board. They are sampling better vintage now that jobs have been offshored."
    By Joyce McGreevy March 22, 2004

  • I am Indian. I am American. I do customer support.

    My cousins and I do the same kind of work. But their parents stayed in India, while mine moved to the United States.
    By Sumana Harihareswara March 10, 2004
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