USA: White collar jobs wandern ab, Hunger und Armut nehmen zu
Geschrieben von Andreas am 21. Dezember 2003 17:40:55:
Als Antwort auf: NACHRICHTEN (20.12.) (o.T.) geschrieben von franz_liszt am 21. Dezember 2003 10:57:38:
The off-shoring of service jobs is déjà vu all over again. In the 1970s, U.S. corporations started shipping manufacturing jobs to low-wage countries such as Mexico, China and Indonesia in an effort to cut labor costs. Now, that same drive to reduce labor costs is hitting more highly skilled workers as service jobs go to well-educated workers in New Delhi and Prague and Singapore.
While the economics of sending manufacturing jobs and service positions abroad may be the same, the political consequences promise to be different. In American politics it's one thing to attack the working class, but quite another to undermine the middle class, which votes in higher percentages. As any political consultant will tell you, as the middle class goes, so goes the nation. By cutting white collar positions, American businesses are sowing the seeds of a populist backlash that could redraw the political map.
The first signs of this are already evident. Newly vulnerable high tech workers – traditionally not big union supporters – are starting to listen to the entreaties of organized labor. The Communication Workers of America says it is seeing increasing enthusiasm for unionization among off-shored high tech workers.
Eigener Kommentar: Die Revolutionsforschung lehrt, dass es weniger die Ärmsten der Armen, sondern der bürgerliche Mittelstand und Leute sind, die befürchten etwas zu verlieren der Stoff sind, aus dem militante und gegenüber dem etablierten politischen System illoyale Bewegungen entstehen.
Hunger and homelessness continued to rise in major American cities over the last year, according to the new U.S. Conference of Mayors-Sodexho Hunger and Homelessness Survey, released today at the Conference of Mayors Headquarters. As the overall economy remained weak, requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of 17 percent over the past year, and requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the 25 cities surveyed.Beides sind Symptome von Dis-Organisation, im ersten Falle liegt ein gravierendes strukturelles Problem zu Grunde: Der Verlust von Arbeitsplätzen resultieren nicht etwa aus technischer Innovation, welche im günstigen Fall neue schaffen könnte wie es in der Vergangenheit, sondern sind ein Resultat der höheren Produktivität anderer. We are losing out against the barbarians.