Your reading is the same as mine. Nothing about their plight. Just that their situation was a natural part of progress.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:57:28PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: > Michael Perelman wrote: > > >I don't know how we switched from open source to outsourcing, but I find > >the concern about outsourcing quite interesting. For decades, > >manufacturing workers suffered the brunt of outsourcing. I saw little > >interest in the media regarding the plight of these workers. Now that > >better educated, more skilled workers are vulnerable, the subject is > >becoming popular. > > Is that true? There were plenty of stories about the Rust Belt in the > early 1980s, and even in the early 1990s. But job loss was presented > as a fact of nature, about which we could do nothing - except go to > college and learn computers. But now the people who did the "right" > thing are taking hits too. > > Doug -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
