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[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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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

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