With the United States’ economy in a depression and our unemployment rate skyrocketing to record highs, job-outsourcing has moved to the top of the list of controversial issues. Froma Harrop’s essay New Threat to Skilled U.S. Workers and Thomas Friedman’s essay 30 Little Turtles discuss two different viewpoints of job-outsourcing, and their effects on society. Does our government really want to cut back on job-outsourcing, and what can society do to help the issue? Friedman’s standpoint on job-outsourcing shows how it is emotionally beneficial to other countries and Harrop’s factual standpoint shows job-outsourcing regulation, however, I feel that our citizens are unaware of the opportunities and our government is eager to send the jobs …show more content…
By adding her own knowledge and ideas, she makes the essay very complex. Continuing on in the essay Harrop brings in another source, professor of public policy Ron Hira. She shares Hira’s research results which show that the top applicants for H-1B visas are outsourcing companies. The companies send worker to the United States to train and work before going back home to improve the companies they work for. Harrop continues to use quotes from Hira along with adding her knowledge about how job-outsourcing affects the wages of American workers. The very last sentence in Harrop’s essay warns future workers about the rising issue. This is a very strategic move as a last chance to engrave the message in the reader’s mind. Harrop’s facts and uses of other sources help the readers immensely as they are trying to understand the issue. This essay was easy to understand and well written. Thomas Friedman has taken a very different approach when trying to grab his audience’s attention. 30 Little Turtles, by Thomas Friedman is emotional essay that appeals to pathos. Friedman tries to persuade people into seeing the positive effects of job-outsourcing on the young adults of India. Friedman wants those who oppose to job-outsourcing to understand how it would be beneficial to others. He begins the essay with an in-depth description of his emotion as he read an accent neutralization poem to a group of Indian trainees. He also says that he enjoys
economy.” In doing so, she effectively makes the reader aware that there is only one option when it comes to maintain order in the workforce. This does not lie at the border but, instead, within ourselves and our government. These workers are, in fact, benefitting our economy. The government only notices the percentage of unemployment, even when it’s at an all-time low of 4.9%. They recognize that this number could be lower, but fail to understand that it is a function of our economy. There must always be some unemployed people, otherwise the system will fall. She leaves us with the understanding that our government should shift their focus from “securing [the] borders” to holding the employer as the liable party.
The impact outsourcing had to United States was for some Americans bad. They claim the jobs they loose and the disadvantages that Americans were facing due to this radical change. While in the United States some people were disgusted, in the other side of the world, the young people were very thankful. This change made a revolution on their culture; the new Indian generations were entering to a whole new world, making a big change between Indian generations.
“30 Little Turtles” an article by Thomas L. Friedman. Is about the positive encounter Friedman experiences. In receiving a standing ovation “from a roomful of indian 20 year olds”(Friedman) by simply reading “ a paragraph”. During a proper canadian pronunciation teaching, in helping minimize and mask indian accents; In future call center operators. Friedman's article remains optimistic in its entirety. Believing there are many benefits to outsourcing, for it creates prosperity. However, in Stephanie Malinowski article “ Questioning Thomas L. Friedman Optimism in “30 Little Turtles”. She is quick to point out just how absurd Friedman’s article is. Due to the fact he portrays a condescending attitude (toward the indian students), insufficient
It is believed that offshoring will have minimal effects on the employment rate in America due to the theory that when jobs are moved to other countries, the workers who have become unemployed will find employment as new opportunities are created. In reality, the adjustment will be difficult as proven by data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Displaced Workers Survey in the year 2004. A survey showed that workers who were laid off between the years 2001 and 2003 remained unemployed at the beginning of 2004. It was also recorded that 43 percent of those who managed to find work earned the same pay as they did prior to being laid off, but the remaining 22 percent did not. These facts rely on the rate at which
In addition to the present alternative organizations began to source their services to countries like Asian nation and China wherever staggering population makes the provision of low cost labor rather more convenient and as a result entire firms were outsourced to those places because of that it absolutely was the native labor that intimate with the malignancy of being axed from their firms. all told the economic chaos that followed within the backcloth of such depressing conditions it absolutely was the native labor that developed the best hostility for outsourcing as they squarely blame it for his or her impoverishment.
In recent headlines, the H-1B visa has come become a debatable topic. The number of visas distributed to skilled workers (H-1B) and who receives them, and whether the United States should increase or decrease the amount. Currently, the H-1B visa system is structure to administer 65,000 H-1B visas (Services, H-1B Fiscal Years (FY) 2014 Cap Season). According to the United States Citizenship and Immigration, 124,000 petitions were received during the 2013 fiscal year. (Services, H-1B Fiscal Years (FY) 2014 Cap Season). Some are suggesting that we need more skilled immigrant labor within our country for innovative and entrepreneurial exploration, while others are opposed to such a change and would prefer a decrease in the number of
Illustrating how immigrants help the economy through their suffering, brings up empathy once more. The authors’ describe how they fled to a new country looking for a better life, finding unwanted jobs paying minimally, causing the consumers to positively buy products cheaply. Lakoff and Ferguson use pathos to They claim that to solve immigration, one must look at the issue broadly, realizing that the solution lies when everyone collaborates to decrease the number of people fleeing their country. Explaining the different viewpoints allows them to concede to the readers, showing how they are making their decisions based on knowledge. However, when comparing the two different views they still seem biased, using a negative tone when describing the way conservatives
‘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?”
As the world has gotten “smaller” in terms of trade, outsourcing has become a hot topic in much political and economic debate in the United States.
These leaders misguidedly create an unfair standard that makes skilled immigrants not qualified of an American job and actually believe and stand by the idea that they are stealing American jobs away. On the contrary, for example, evidence is beginning to prove that skilled immigrants implement the bulk of Silicon Valley startups which result in the creation of numerous jobs. According to entrepreneur, Vivek Wadhwa, improper and burdensome U.S. immigration policies are creating a buildup in the granting of permanent resident visas, ensuing in the dismissal of countless highly educated entrepreneurs, which end up placing these entrepreneurs and the potential for economic improvements outside of the United States. Vivek Wadhwa’s article shows us how the U.S. continues to remain oblivious to the economic benefits it can acquire through the retaining of skilled immigrants. Wadhwas demonstrates that other countries are aware of the potential growth skilled immigrants can bring to their country and the United States needs to wake
The exporting of American jobs is an issue that is important and will become increasingly so as more and more white collar jobs are shipped overseas. American companies in the past few decades have been sending American jobs overseas paying residents of other countries pennies on the dollar what they had paid American workers to do. This saves the companies millions of dollars on labor costs but costs Americans precious jobs.
Subsequently, Bloomberg reports that a new H-1B bill is in the process of being passed to further scrutinize the requirements of employing foreign workers in specialty occupations within the United States. Moreover, it seems that the executive order has not only led to an increased focus on obtaining the best skill from immigrants but, attempts to weed out the issue that has existed for a long time, outsourcing cheap labor. The “recipients of the H-1B visas are outsourcers, primarily from India, who run the technology departments of large corporations with largely imported staff” (Elstrom, Rai, 26-28), as a result, companies such as Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp which is one of the heaviest users of the H-1B program, is seeing its shares fall 4.4% of its original $58 quote. The significance of the article to me is found through the events that unfold as a result of the executive
Michelle Malkin and John Miano as author reveal the worst perpetrators screwing Americas high skilled worker, how and why they are doing it and what we must do to stop them. In Sold Out, they will name names and expose the lies of those who pretend to champion the middle class, while aiding $ abetting massive lay-offs of highly skilled American workers in favor of cheap foreign labor.
Friedman and Mandelbaum are both “frustrated optimists” of America 's future (7). They know the potential American has, and that it is filled with creative talented and hardworking people that can accomplish almost anything if they work together (Friedman and Mandelbaum, 8). At the same time, they are frustrated because they discovered that “many of those people feel that our country is not educating the workforce they need, or admitting the energetic immigrants they seek, or investing in the infrastructure they require, or funding the research they envision, or putting in place the intelligent tax laws and incentives that our competitors have installed” (Friedman and Mandelbaum, 8). American
In “Will Your Job Be Exported?”, Alan S. Blinder argues the quality and security of jobs in the future, service sectors in America will be determined by how offshorable they are. Blinder starts out the story with a quote by Edmund Burke, “You can never plan the future by the past”. Although he stated we are doing exactly that when it comes to getting the American workforce ready for jobs of the future. Blinder states “demand for labor appears to have shifted toward the college-educated and away from high school graduates and dropouts” (p. 8). According to Lou Dobbs, “Well under one percent of US service jobs have been outsourced.” Eventually offshoring for service sectors will exceed offshoring for manufacturing-sectors for 3 reasons. First simply because there is a greater amount of service jobs than manufacturing jobs in the US and other countries that are well off. Second, service sector offshoring continues to accelerate due to technological advances thus increasing the range of services offshore. And lastly, (e.g. Chinese and Indian) workers with the capability to perform service jobs continue to increase rapidly.