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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| What Outsourcing Means for America | |
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| Outsourcing Can't Be Ignored | |
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| What Actually Happens with Outsourcing | |
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| The Outsourcing Debate Is Misleading | |
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| Is Outsourcing Inevitable? | |
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| The Potential Impacts Are Far-Reaching | |
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| Why Outsourcing Is Fool's Gold for Companies | |
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| What the U.S. Can Do About Outsourcing | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Outsourcing in a Larger Context | |
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| Free Trade Is Not Really "Free" | |
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| The Effects Can Vary Greatly | |
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| Understanding Historical Developments | |
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| Trading Jobs for Competitive Advantage | |
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| How Other Nations Handled Trade Competition | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Public Debate on Outsourcing Is Misleading | |
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| What Experts Say About Outsourcing | |
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| Open Proponents of Outsourcing | |
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| Critics of Outsourcing | |
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| Proponents' Reaction to Critics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Outsourcing of High-Wage Jobs | |
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| How Much Outsourcing Is Happening? | |
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| How Outsourcing Snowballs | |
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| A Lack of Government Monitoring | |
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| The Upward Trends in Offshore Outsourcing | |
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| Offshore Outsourcing in Other Developed Countries | |
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| Where the Jobs Are Heading | |
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| Why Companies Are Moving Jobs Overseas | |
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| Cost and Salary Differences | |
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| Domestic Outsourcing as a Strategy | |
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| Better or Unique Talent Overseas | |
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| No Penalty for Destroying U.S. Jobs | |
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| U.S. Tax Incentives | |
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| Technological Change | |
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| Access to Emerging Markets with Proactive Policies | |
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| Easier with Experience | |
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| U.S. Immigration Policies | |
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| Corporate Strategy that No Longer Includes Workers | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Far-Reaching Effects of Outsourcing on the U.S. Economy | |
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| The Long-Run Impacts on Economic Efficiency | |
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| The Impacts on U.S. Labor Demand | |
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| The Impacts on Types of Occupations and Education | |
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| The Threats to U.S. Technological Capacity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Human Face of Outsourcing: The Impact on Individual Workers and Communities | |
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| The Immediate Impact on American Workers | |
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| The Long-Run Impact on American Workers | |
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| The Impact on Individuals | |
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| The Impact on Communities | |
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| The Indian-American Community: A Special Case | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| How Developing Countries Attract American Jobs | |
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| Why Software Companies Move Overseas | |
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| Outsourcing to India | |
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| The Rise of Indian Software | |
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| The Indian Diaspora Brought High-Tech Home | |
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| Why Bangalore? The Development of the Indian Software Cluster | |
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| The Indian Government's High-Tech Policies | |
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| An Overview of China's Proactive IT Policy | |
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| The Implications for Other Developing Countries | |
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| What's Down the Road? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Ten Policy Recommendations | |
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| Acknowledge that a Problem Exists | |
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| Gather the Right Data to Study the Problem | |
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| Reform U.S. Visa Policies that Encourage Offshore Outsourcing | |
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| Adopt More Pragmatic Approaches to Government Procurement | |
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| Overhaul Assistance Programs for Displaced Workers | |
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| Establish Better Protections for Workers | |
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| Train the Next Generation of Workers to Have Lifelong Marketable Skills | |
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| New Institutions Are Needed to Represent the Interests of Workers | |
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| Maintain Our Technological Leadership | |
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| Institute Trade Policies in the U.S. National Interest | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Defining Outsourcing | |
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| Outsourcing | |
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| Offshore Outsourcing | |
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| Offshoring or Offshore Outsourcing | |
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| On-Site Offshore Outsourcing | |
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| Insourcing | |
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| Global Sourcing | |
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| Best-Shore, Near-Shore, All-Shore, etc. | |
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| Analysis of Key Outsourcing Studies | |
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| ITAA Study | |
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| Mann Report | |
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| McKinsey Report | |
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| Legislation Introduced Related to Outsourcing | |
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| Federal Legislation | |
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| State Legislation | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |