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fawneferguson

Foreign outsourcing isn't a huge job killer - 0 views

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    This article explores how, although outsourcing has not reduced the number of jobs available in Canada as much as people once feared, it does however impact the wages available in Canada as companies now have stronger bargaining power.
fawneferguson

Further Education Society - Calgary - 0 views

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    This organization focuses on helping people further their education in order to improve their standard of living. This really aligns with Chapter 5 in Friedman's book, as he discusses how low-skilled workers must improve their education in order to obtain better positions (229). They have to do this as the jobs they were doing have been outsourced to other countries.
christinawright

China Economy - 1 views

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    This site supports Friedman's three convergences of horizontalization, using new technologies with new ways of doing business, and the world now having access to plug-in and play. The article talks about outsourcing many services (especially within manufacturing) all over the world. In 2012, China was the 18th fastest growing economy in the world, with a real GDP growth rate (constant prices, national currency) of 7.8 percent. Although the figure is its slowest growth since 1999, it is also representative of a maturing economy as it gradually transition from a developing to developed nation.
fawneferguson

Canada must face globalization head on - 0 views

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    This article explores the anger many Canadians felt over outsourcing. However, the author believes that Canada must learn to deal with this, as it is something that has happened before to us (with manufacturing) and is not happening to other countries as well (manufacturing is moving from China to Vietnam)
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