We Are All Spaniards

Tom Sixkiller ) wrote:
:
: Work ebbs and flows from one sector to another, and from one company to
: another.
:

And from one country to another:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...5/b3818001.htm
BW Online | February 3, 2003 | The New Global Job Shift

even including lawyers, the larval form of politicians:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...how/426946.cms
Now, outsourcing to hit US lawyers - The Economic Times

http://www.atlaslegal.com/atlasBusineemode.html
Atlas legal Research

http://www.informationweek.com/story...cleID=16600553
Legal Research And Back-Office Work To Go Offshore Next

Fields thought to be the "Next Big Thing" such as biotechnology and
nanoteachnology are also being offshored:

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_f...ntent_id=37377
US Biotech Companies Evince Interest In Outsourcing To India


Will Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages come true?:

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0110-05.htm
The Price of Globalization

"...The iron law of wages is also simple and logical. It says that wages
will tend to stabilize at or about subsistence level. That seemed
inevitable to Ricardo, since while workers are necessary, and so have
to be kept alive, they have no hope of any better treatment since they
are infinitely available, replaceable, and generally interchangeable.

Ricardo's wage theory has seemed untrue. The supply of competent
workers in a given place is not unlimited; neither workers nor
industry are perfectly mobile, and labor demonstrated in the 19th and
20th centuries that it could mobilize and defend itself. The iron law
of wages would seem to function only if the supply of labor is
infinite and totally mobile.

Unfortunately that day, for practical purposes, has now arrived,
thanks to globalization.

Globalization is removing the constraints imposed in the past by
societies possessing institutions, legislation, and the political will
to protect workers.

Free trade doctrine is hostile to unions, social legislation, and
legal restriction on industry's labor practices, all of which deprive
poor countries of their comparative advantage, which is poverty..."

Perhaps it already is coming true:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/sil...ey/7769103.htm
Mercury News | 01/22/2004 | Jobs shift to lower-paying sectors
Posted on Thu, Jan. 22, 2004


--Jerry Leslie
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Globalization is removing the constraints imposed in the past by
societies possessing institutions, legislation, and the political will
to protect workers.

Free trade doctrine is hostile to unions, social legislation, and
legal restriction on industry's labor practices, all of which deprive
poor countries of their comparative advantage, which is poverty..."

That's the most illogical hypothesis I've seen. How is competing globally
any different than competition between the states? Or how about with
Canada? Where do you draw the line?

The alternative to competition is isolationism and protectionism, which
leads to $25 hammers, and $40K automobiles that don't last 50K miles...

I don't know about you, but I remember the days before America was forced to
compete with Japan and Germany. Remember "American Motors"? Remember
paying good, hard-earned money for junk cars that rusted out and broke down?

Well, I do, and it sucked. Meanwhile, the unionized line workers at AMC
were bringing in $60K, and loved to tell me jokes about how all they did was
sleep all day in the back room.

No, integration with the world economy is our only hope of long-term
survival.
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