Americ A Strong Wave Of Big Corporations Picking Up And Abandoning Their American Roots

‘Is your job next?’ headline blared, followed by the disturbing preview of the article inside: “A new round of globalization is sending upscale jobs offshore. They include chip design engineering, basic research— even financial analysis. Can America lose these jobs and still prosper (R. Hira, 2008, p-1)?” The reaction of this news was swift and divided. Definitely large corporations that will be outsourcing will make huge profits in the long run but “what about the American citizens?”

Jobs outsourced to China have subsided American employment opportunities and have helped contribute to wage erosion since 2001(Peralta). Between 2001 to 2013, 3.2 million American jobs were lost and three-quarters of those jobs were in manufacturing (Peralta). When you outsource jobs to different countries because it is cheaper, you are helping destroy your own country and could even be supporting slave and child labor and companies do this because they are greedy and want to make more money even though they could be getting low quality, brand damaging products

In the third world countries such as Vietnam, China, South Korea and Taiwan, we are provided with an example of cheap labour. These corporations could now achieve the benefit of the United States consumer market8, while keeping their costs extremely low in offshore production. The working conditions in the United States were poor for centuries, often little to nothing was done unless a tragedy occurred to influence worker rights by the public. This was the issue during the Industrial Revolution and in the late 20th century. In the United states, improvements have been made and these conditions have disappeared, with the privilege in some agricultural areas. Companies from the United States have moved a considerable amount of their factories

Save good public and private jobs. Millions of workers in the middle class have a public job employment, but a high record of public employees has been laid off. The public employees’ workers now have to go privatized to low-wage firms. Big corporation are sending jobs from the United States to other countries around the world. Stop the cutting and privatizing the good public jobs. Stop rewarding corporations for shipping jobs overseas.

Again China cheap labors not only they are stealing American workers jobs, but they're also exporting their product to Americans on a daily basis.

If companies are allowed to outsource jobs from Americans, then we should ban the use of that company’s products. An alternative would be to regulate the price and ensure either import fees are increased or the price must be lower. Ultimately if we put a cap on how much capital an employer can retain as profit. While every company goes into business to make profit, it is the method of underpaying employees that has contributed to the present situation with the wealth gap.

This article goes into deep detail of past events that caused the economy to be in trouble, and how this affected the American people. Over the years The United States of America has faced many hardships that affected a majority of the country. Such as The Great Depression, and the crash of 2008. One of many include the amount of jobs that have been lost due to various reasons. American´s have a hard working ethic, but the people must apply themselves. The ratio of how much someone works and the amount they get paid is not accurate. This is because of the Broken Basic Bargain, which is why the economy is the way that it is. This article stated that Americans are beginning to settle for lower paying jobs, or going without cost of living increases. The worst decade for American workers started in the year of 2001. ¨Republican governors and legislators are trying to pass so-called right-to-work laws banning employment contracts requiring employees to join a union and pay union dues,¨ claimed the article. America is in a never ending cycle at the moment due to the fact that lower incomes bean less demand for goods and services, which then means less wages in the

corporations to use cheap overseas labor” my first thoughts were yes because of my personal beliefs. But upon further thought and through discovery, I realized that from a business point of view we as a nation should still help promote economic globalization. In order to do so we need to outsource production and encourage trade. However, because we are fiscally involved in another country’s economy that doesn’t give American corporations the right to implement our laws and standards into other countries’ business practices and laws. Just because we see child labor, unfair wages, and violating overtime as immoral, doesn’t mean that the host county does. However global labor standards need to be unified.

In discussion of America’s economic future, many believe that technological advances has the potential to ensure better secure jobs and the possibility to solve the economic inequality that America is facing. Recently, there has been data to prove that technological advances such as artificial intelligence may have the power to complete jobs with more accuracy and with less expense compared to a human completing the job, leading to the possibility that some jobs might not be secure to humans. In an article posted for the Wall Street Journal, political scientist Charles Murray writes, “Two Oxford scholars estimate that as many as 47% of American jobs are at risk” (Murray). So, how does one provide financial security for the unpredictable future?

In fact, many of those who immigrated here from Europe in the first half of the century took up jobs in manufacturing or basic service and were able to support their families and start their new lives. However, today there is less opportunity in low-skill jobs. Due in part to global competition, fewer jobs are available for unskilled workers who are left without opportunity. This is most evident in the Rust Belt of America, where towns and cities based on manufacturing jobs which have since moved away are starting to collapse. One city in particular stands out: Detroit, whose population has decreased from 950,000 to under 700,000 in the past two decades. Even for those who are able to land a job, wages are often too low to be a true living wage. In fact, during the 2016 presidential race, many campaigned for massive increases to the minimum wage. Both the development of a “corporate America”, in which the wealthy grow increasingly powerful, and the unsustainability of low-wage jobs in modern times make it more difficult for the common people to move up the economic ladder and ultimately can be the reason that many start to lose hope in the American Dream.

Because of the greediness of large corporations, most factories producing things used in America are located outside the U.S., taking employment opportunities away from Americans.

America is not the same place it was fifty years ago. It no longer protects the rights of the majority of its people. While our spoiled employers may lounge about and chat about “how incredible this age of industrialization is,” we, the workers, the ones that keep these giant corporations in business, are overworked and underpaid. Our wives are forced into the factories and our children are compelled to replace their essential studies with labor in order to keep us out of debt. Due to the divide in wealth, our economy is so unstable that we consistently fall into severe depressions. There is no longer a passion to learn, to thrive or to invent. We are but pets controlled by machines and mighty men with full pockets. And although America has

For many years the United States have been growing and becoming one of the best countries in the world politically, industrially, and economically. The economy situation is one of the most significant areas, in which Americans have been improving. According to Lim and Smalzer, (2008), before the World War II, The economic in the US was stabled Until the US army had won in the World War II (Piketty & Saez, 2003). The economic status had been very strong in the US; as result, the middle class was growing in both birth rates and marriage rates (Lim & Smalzer, 2008). Subsequently, the economy inequalities changed based on those growing. In that time, the economic was not so noticeable because number of population was changing and the US was improving

These days more and more of the corporate powers are migrating in search of cheap labor and huge profits, carrying away with them the primary sources of living of many people. As we saw in Roger and Me, General Motors replaced it’s Flint plant to open new ones in Mexico,

Walmart is responsible for the labor trafficking that is caused by their subcontractors. Labor trafficking, or forced labor, is a practice where people are forced to work using “fear, coercion, or deceit” and are paid little to none. The most common form of labor trafficking today is debt trafficking (Laura, 506). Debt trafficking occurs when a trafficker promises to introduce his/her victim to a high paying job with an upfront fee. However, most victims do not have the ability to pay the upfront fee so the trafficker will then offer them a loan. Once the victim agrees to the loan, he/she will have no control over his/her wages and receives little or no wage at all because according to the trafficker, his/her wages are used to repaid the loans. Some victims also do not have the ability to leave as they are deceived into signing contracts that leaves them unable to escape from their traffickers. The International Labour Organization reported that there are at least 21 million people worldwide who are subjected to some kind of forced labor and the profit extracted from the forced labor by private businesses has exceeded $44 billion (LeBaron, 237). Walmart should be held accountable for the forced labor caused by their subcontractors because human rights are being violated and the company is benefitting from the forced labor.