Global Trade Issues Hit Home (washingtonpost.com)

Global Trade Issues Hit Home
Loss of Jobs Has Trickle-Down Effect on Local Economies in S.C., Other States
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 2, 2004; Page A07


SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- In the Old South trappings of the exclusive Piedmont Club here, barons of a textile industry in decline gathered last week to deliver a message to the candidates for president. Republicans all, each voted for George W. Bush in 2000, but, they promised, the politician who will get tough on Chinese imports, tighten enforcement of existing trade agreements and oppose future trade deals will have their vote -- and, if they can help it, the votes of their 630,000 employees.



The Democratic candidates have done their best to oblige, forsaking the Clinton-era free-trade mentality.

The leftward shift on trade is only part of a rising message of economic populism in the race for the Democratic nomination. With chronic manufacturing job losses and geographic pockets of economic uncertainty, Democrats have been quick to ratify concerns over foreign competition and global trade liberalization as they hammer away at what Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) has called "powerful interests,"

 
Federation for American Immigration Reform : Deleting American Workers: Abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker System in the High Tech Industry

Deleting American Workers: Abuse of the Temporary Foreign Worker System in the High Tech Industry


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Despite the well-documented troubles that have afflicted the high tech industry over the past three years—countless companies have gone out of business and millions of workers have lost their jobs, creating a growing pool of available labor—many companies continue to import workers from overseas. The H-1B and L-1 visa programs allow people in professional occupations to work in the United States on a temporary basis. At a time of high unemployment, the high tech industry is flooding the labor market by importing workers who are willing to work more cheaply than American high tech workers.

 
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Wired 12.02: The New Face of the Silicon Age

The New Face of the Silicon Age


How India became the capital of the computing revolution.

By Daniel H. Pink

FEATURE:
The New Face of the Silicon Age
PLUS:
The Indian Machine
Will Work for Rupees
The Outsourcer
Meet the pissed-off programmer. If you've picked up a newspaper in the last six months, watched CNN, or even glanced at Slashdot, you've already heard his anguished cry.










Jessica Wynne
From top: Aparna Jairam, project manager; Kavita Samudra, senior software engineer; Aditya Deshmukh, project manager; Srividya Kanan, technical architect; Lalit Suryawanshi, senior software engineer.
He's the guy - and, yeah, he's usually a guy - launching Web sites like yourjobisgoingtoindia.com and nojobsforindia.com. He's the guy telling tales - many of them true, a few of them urban legends - about American programmers being forced to train their Indian replacements. Because of him, India's commerce and industry minister flew to Washington in June to assure the Bush administration that Indian coders were not bent on destroying American livelihoods. And for the past year, he's the guy who's been picketing corporate outsourcing conferences, holding placards that read WILL CODE FOR FOOD will code for food and chanting, "Shame, shame, shame!"