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Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel -- An Avenger-less Choice for Mother's Day

2012-05-10T14:05:28Z

The greatest risk of a movie like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel would be the one-dimensional fetishizing of the country, where India is held up as a magical bazaar. Thankfully, the movie doesn't do that.

Read more: Outsourcing, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Lillete Dubey, Ronald Pickup, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench, Tena Desae, India, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie, Video, Entertainment News

O'Brien Browne: Outsourcing: Relationships Get Results

2012-05-08T17:26:40Z

Outsourcing projects are often badly planned and mismanaged, resulting in project delays, rising costs, soaring frustration levels and cross-cultural misunderstandings. In the end, cheap is expensive.

Read more: Outsourcing, Costs Outsourcing, Czech Outsourcing, Germany Outsourcing, India Outsourcing, Outsourced, Business Outsourcing, Business News

Jane White: This Time It's Different -- Old Remedies Won't Fix Our Flat-World Economy

2012-05-06T20:11:35Z

President Obama wants to remove tax incentives for companies who takes jobs abroad and reward those who bring them back home. But will a different tax tactic do the trick?

Read more: Outsourcing, Tax Cuts, Mitt Romney, Ben Bernanke, China, Recession, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Overseas-Jobs, Politics News

Tim Robertson: Why Is the TPP Such a Big Secret?

2012-05-04T13:15:34Z

The only way the corporate shopping list that is the TPP can get past public scrutiny is if no one ever hears about it. Fortunately, activists are fighting back.

Read more: HIV/AIDS, Outsourcing, Free Trade Agreements, Offshoring, Internet Freedom, Free Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Financial Regulation, Cispa, Politics News

David Isenberg: Data at Last, Data at Last: Thank God Almighty, Data at Last (Sort of)

2012-04-26T08:20:56Z

One wonders why all the PMSC trade association crack analysts and interns have not been publicizing his work. After all it is not every day that one finds factual data supporting, at least partially, their claims. Oh well, perhaps they're on a long coffee break or out for a run.

Read more: Outsourcing, Dissertation, Private Military Security Contractors, Supply and Demand, Business News

David Coates: Republican Base, Manufacturing Base: Which Is the More Important?

2012-04-24T15:44:41Z

The American economy is in trouble now primarily because the industrial policy to which the Republican Party currently subscribes remains hugely influential and entirely inadequate.

Read more: Reagan, High Wages, Outsourcing, Mitt Romney, Manufacturing, Obama Administration, Industrial Policy, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Business News

Don McNay: Business Lessons From a Bookmaking Front

2012-04-12T08:46:15Z

There was one factor that made the dry cleaners a smart business decision. In its back room there was a bookmaking operation and an ongoing card game.

Read more: McNay Settlement Group, Small Business, Low Wages, Bookmaking, Newport Kentucky, Son of a Son of a Gambler, Don McNay, Long Hours, Outsourcing, Dry Cleaners, Small Business America, Lottery Winners, Business News

Vested Interest: Business Is Booming For Rick Santorum Sweater Vest Maker

2012-04-11T15:44:59Z

Rick Santorum made the sweater vest cool again. Campaign battle-cries like "fear the vest" and "sleeves slow you down" empowered high school history t...

Read more: Outsourcing, Small Business, Minnesota, Bemidji Woolen Mills, Rick Santorum, Manufacturing, Small Business News and Trends, Slidepollajax, Rick Santorum Sweater Vest, Wool, Santorum Sweater Vest, Small Business News

David Isenberg: A Triple Play on Improving Oversight for Better Contracting

2012-04-11T14:30:49Z

The core argument of all private military and security contractor advocates is that they can do things more cheaply and efficiently than the public sector. But the problem is that most PMSC advocates assert this all the time, often without evidence.

Read more: Insourcing, Outsourcing, Oversight, Contracting, Center for American Progress, Auditing, Private-Military-Security-Contractors, Military Contractors, Politics News

David Macaray: We Invented Plastic Vomit and Artificial Dog Poo

2012-04-09T16:16:22Z

Our plastic vomit and artificial dog poo -- iconic, time-honored staples of American humor -- are now being produced in China. While most people will shrug this off as no big deal, I see it differently, and it's not just about the economics.

Read more: Outsourcing, Chinese Factories, Novelty Gifts, Fake Vomit, Gag Gifts, Humor, Parody, Fake Dog Poo, Comedy, Comedy News

Biden Taking Aim At Romney

2012-03-28T10:02:13Z

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden is seeking to portray Republican Mitt Romney as a proponent of outsourcing, using a speech in Iowa to unde...

Read more: Outsourcing, Video, 2012 Election, Biden Romney, Joe Biden Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney 2012, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Joe Biden Romney, Joe Biden, Politics News

Christopher Hytry Derrington: JOBS Act: The Winners And Losers

2012-03-26T14:17:13Z

This pending law is a game-changer for the biggest risk-takers in American Capitalism: the entrepreneurs who are creating jobs by starting and growing companies and the investors who provide them with the financial resources to do so. I'm one of the winners of this bill -- but that doesn't mean I'm not attuned to the losers.

Read more: Outsourcing, Investing, Small Business, Friends and Family Investing, Onshoring, Crowdfunding, Angel Investing, Rural America, Crowdsourcing, Sec, Venture Capital, Securities and Exchange Commission, Jobs Act, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Jobs, Small Business News

As Cheap Chinese Labor Gets More Expensive, Companies Consider Moving Elsewhere

2012-03-25T23:57:00Z

By Lucy Hornby and Don Durfee BEIJING, March 26 (Reuters) - U.S. lawnmower manufacturer Briggs & Stratton is used to worrying abou...

Read more: Outsourcing, Video, Chinese Workers, Labor Costs, China Labor, Reuters, Business News, Outsourcing to China, Chinese Skilled Workers, China Economy, China, Business News

Dr. Keith Devlin: All the Math Taught at University Can Be Outsourced. What Now?

2012-03-23T11:04:42Z

Every mathematical skill, procedure, or technique I learned over six years at university is now essentially obsolete from a US market perspective. If we cannot compete, then we need to play a different game.

Read more: Steve Jobs, Apple, Inquiry-Based Learning, Flat World, Mathematics, Innovation, Outsourcing, STEM Education, Barack Obama, Project-Based Learning., Silicon Valley, Mathematical Thinking, Khan Academy, 60 Minutes, Education News

Whistleblower Accuses One City Of Outsourcing Jobs

2012-03-21T23:22:00Z

By Dan Levine March 21 (Reuters) - A contractor hired by the city of San Diego made confidential police files accessible to people ou...

Read more: Outsourcing Jobs, Outsourcing, Video, Whistleblowers, City Contracts, San Diego, Reuters, Business News, San Diego Whistleblower Suit, City Contractors, Business News

Lawmakers Look To Punish Companies That Offshore Call-Center Jobs

2012-03-21T18:25:47Z

WASHINGTON -- Following the lead of lawmakers on Capitol Hill, several states have proposed legislation that would punish American companies that relo...

Read more: India, India Call Center, Offshore Jobs, Call Center Jobs, Anti-Outsourcing, Call Center Workers, Jobs, Outsourcing Call Center Jobs, Protectionism, Philippines, Call Centers, Outsourced Jobs, Outsourcing, Video, Anti-Outsourcing Bill, Philippines Call Center, Tim Bishop, Politics News

Robert Kuttner: Steve Jobs and American Jobs

2012-03-11T22:20:33Z

Throughout the first decade of the new century, before the recession hit, wages lagged behind living costs for the vast majority of Americans -- because the top one percent were capturing such a large share of the economy's total productivity gains. Some of this trend was the result of globalization undercutting the bargaining power of U.S. workers; some of it resulted from weakened trade unions and minimum wage laws lagging behind inflation. So when we finally climb out of this jobs recession, perhaps we can belatedly confront these deeper trends. How to do that? Unions, wage regulation, progressive taxation, and government using existing powers that it seldom exercises. But what about manufacturing? This brings me to the other Jobs of my title, the late Steve Jobs.

Read more: Outsourcing, Labor Unions, Unemployment, Steve Jobs, Wages, Manufacturing, Jobs, Apple Labor, Great Recession, Recession, Apple Foxconn, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Business News

Russell C. Smith: Crowdsourcing Creativity -- Is This Any Way to Get Ahead?

2012-03-06T16:45:00Z

One of the ways people and companies have altered the rules of the online marketplace is by embracing the practice of crowdsourcing creativity, often with questionable results.

Read more: Globalization, Creative Capitalism, Crowdsourcing, Creative Class, Outsourcing, Crowdfunding Ecommerce, Outsourcing Jobs, Crowd Sourcing Creativity, Crowdsourcing Digital Jobs, Business News

Dave Johnson: Free Trade or Democracy, Can't Have Both

2012-03-01T17:07:02Z

When we allow companies to just import stuff that is made by exploited workers in countries where people do not have a say, we are granting not-having-a-say an advantage over having a say. We make democracy a competitive disadvantage.

Read more: Apple, Trade, China, Outsourcing, Free Trade Agreements, Outsourcing to China, Foxconn, U.S. China Trade, Free Trade, Apple Foxconn, Business News

Christopher Hytry Derrington: What $25/Hr Wages Will Buy in Rural America

2012-03-01T09:00:19Z

Critics have accused onshore outsourcing firms like mine of paying rural employees "peanuts" and "slave wages" in order to compete with offshore outsourcing firms. They've said our team members' salaries "couldn't possibly be enough to live on." We disagree, so we decided to put our claims to the test.

Read more: Outsourcing, Living in Rural America, Rural USA Workers, Slidefreestyle, Rural Outsourcing, Rural America, Wages, Slidepollajax, Rural America Wages, Small Business America, Small Business News

Reporter Experiences Harrowing Ordeal As Employee Of Online Shipping Warehouse

2012-02-28T13:07:03Z

Mother Jones reporter and official recipient of the Order Of The Eat The Press Empire knighthood Mac McClelland followed up on the visit she made last...

Read more: Eat the Press, Blue Collar Workers, Online Shipping Warehouse, Poverty, Warehouses, Economy, Amazon Wearhouse, Jobs, Warehouse-Workers, Working Class, Outsourcing, Mac McClelland, Labor, Temp-Workers, Unemployment, Temp Work, Mac Mcclelland Mother Jones, Business News, Media News

Bernard Starr: Free College Is the Answer to Our Higher Education Crisis

2012-02-23T19:56:01Z

Our nation is facing a crisis -- with vast domestic and worldwide implications -- that can only be addressed by thinking out of the box about education.

Read more: College Students, Debt, Workers, Economy, Race to the Top, Employment, Theodore Roszak, Jobs, New York City, Barack Obama, Veterans, Iphone, Outsourcing, Education, Literacy, Apple, Bailout, College, College Tuition, Education Crisis, Interest Rates, College Dropouts, Great Depression, College News

Jeffrey Kaye: Regulate the Rotten Apples: The Need for a New 'Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act'

2012-02-16T10:00:21Z

Apple's size makes it exceptional, but it is only one of countless transnational companies which are able to choose efficiency and lower prices over employee rights and environmental protections.

Read more: Outsourcing, Human Rights, Apple, Environment, Foxconn, Technology, China, Workers Rights, Apple Labor, Apple Foxconn, Business News

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Hell Is Cheaper: China, Apple and the Economics of Horror

2012-02-16T00:01:27Z

Here's how the economics of outsourcing -- the economics of horror -- works: companies like Apple that ignore reports of fraud and danger against employees make it impossible for honest, conscientious suppliers to survive.

Read more: Steve Jobs, William K. Black, Bill Black, China, Apple, Trade, Tim Cook, Outsourcing, Outsourcing to China, Foxconn, Apple Foxconn, Business News

Classic American Brand: We Like China Better

2012-02-15T12:45:19Z

Not satisfied with what they've found at home, a classic American brand is looking overseas to feed its need for sales.

The Gap is planning on open...

Read more: Outsourcing, Uniqlo, Video, Gdp, The Gap, Retail Sales, China Economy, Business News