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To: tsigprofit who started this subject4/2/2004 5:08:42 AM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 20773
 
Interesting article, too long to post:

The Future of Jobs:
New Ones Arise,
Wage Gap Widens

Outsourcing, Technology Cut
Need for Rote Workers;
Brainpower Is in Demand
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By DAVID WESSEL
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
April 2, 2004; Page A1

Much of the American anxiety about outsourcing to India and China can be boiled down to this simple question: Will there be good jobs left for our kids?

It's easy to see why there is so much concern. Tens of millions of increasingly skilled Chinese and Indian workers are joining the global economy at a moment when technology can dispatch white-collar work overseas almost instantly -- from call centers to sophisticated design projects, the very jobs that discouraged U.S. factory workers hoped their children would get.

WHEN U.S. JOBS GO ABROAD


Amid a "jobless recovery" and presidential-year politics, outsourcing is drawing strong reactions. Check out our overview and online roundtable for perspectives, and see complete coverage.



The good news: The U.S. almost certainly isn't going to run out of jobs, even though history shows that it's impossible to predict what new jobs will replace those that are destroyed. The bad news: Outsourcing overseas and technology could widen the gap between the wages of well-paying brainpower jobs and poorly paid hands-on jobs.

Jobs that can be reduced to a series of rules are likely to go -- either to workers abroad or to computers. The jobs that stay in the U.S. or that are newly created in the decade ahead are likely to demand the more complex skill of recognizing patterns or require human contact.

online.wsj.com
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