Prestowitz (2005) addresses the incongruity that this is presenting to the American laborer. Even as education costs continue their annual climb, the competition for jobs in service and technology industries is making a loser out of the American white-collar worker. The economic demands created by the social parameters of American educational and professional advancement dictate such occupations must command a wage spectrum concordant with the attendant costs above mentioned. This is a wage which far exceeds that of the aspiring Indian programmer or support technician. This global proliferation of information and communication technologies such as mobile communication, the internet and voice-over-internet-protocol devices -- direct and intentional results of free trade -- has created a far cheaper workforce in many of the disciplines which gained their economic pertinence in the United States. With the enhancement of telehealth communicational possibilities, this reflects a danger that soon the consultation which is provided by our company will also be considered too costly to compete with overseas consultation.
The general effect of devaluing our own education by diminishing the value of formerly specialized skill sets is supplemented by what Prestowitz refers to as an ominous failure on the part of the United States to invest in the development of new scientific and technological endeavors on a broad scale. The propensities that helped fuel America's initial ascension are now presenting America with competitive markets of its own design and yet operating at far lower costs. The author speaks, then, less of a philosophical grievance with the nature of globalization than through a critical understanding of America's incongruent economic policies. A consideration of its current approaches to detachment from its own labor markets and a disbursement of its labor sectors throughout the world indicates that either the United States is not prepared to comprehend and operate according to the true implications of globalization or that its leadership is actually more interested in the advancement of its corporations than the protection of its labor classes. Regardless of the motive, in its current incarnation, globalization is proving rather destructive to overall economic growth in such important and previously America-dominated sectors as technology and communications. As Prestowitz remarks, "the long-held assumption that U.S. exports of robust services and high-tech products would so dominate world markets as to balance trade has been seriously undermined by the third wave of globalization. Instead, much of the technology developed in U.S. universities and funded by taxpayer money is likely to be commercialized abroad." (Prestowitz, 250) This is a pattern that is hurting the U.S. laborer, now in competition both in the production and service industries with a far more affordable foreign counterpart working in a setting with more lax environmental standards and fewer costly protections for worker rights. Were it that this economic incentive was accompanied by a more concerted effort to retain America's unique stature as a nexus point for the evolution of ideas, technologies and products through proper divestment of public and corporate assets, then the global outsourcing of jobs would not augur so poorly for the working and service classes that will be negatively impacted in our company and others like it. At present though, the United States has seen fit to allow its operations to move their facilities abroad in search of higher profit margins. While the nations where such operations have been instated seem to enjoy exponential economic growth, the United States has stagnated on multiple fronts. With labor market growth, educational standards and job opportunities all enduring an era of retraction, the only rising indicator is the cost of living here. This illustrates that America has been unwilling to create the environment suitable for a functioning economy within globalizing markets. In essence, it must endeavor to reorient its labor force for competition with 3 billion new players.
This invokes a marked and previously nonexistent form of labor and production competition that has decimated the operational capabilities of our suppliers. Reestablishing new connections after years of dealing with the same partners is revealing for our organization the types of pressures that have been created by the process of globalization. Namely, for companies such as ours that have been hesitant to send our contracts overseas, it has been difficulty to remain functional and operating at a steady clip. For our purposes though, we must consider whether we are prepared and suited to make such a change, or whether there are other angles that we might take to resolving the disruption in our flow of business....
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