The Flat Earth - Resources/Credits on Globalization

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ViewPoints on Thomas Friedman's Book and the impact [pros and cons] of globalization >

Where You Go From Knowledge? What's Left?
URLs (Globalization, Outsourcing, Offshoring, etc,)

The World Isn't Flat: It's Amazingly Spiky
from Atlantic Monthly

Richard Florida, author of "The Rise of the Creative Class" explains that globalization has changed the economic playing field, but hasn't levelled it.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, and in this case, Florida's four computer-generated images, charting population, light emissions, patents, and scientific citations, demolishes Friedman's entire book.
http://www.creativeclass.org/acrobat/TheWorldIsSpiky.pdf

(Lou Dobbs) Exporting America:
Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas

When a company in New York can lay off a few thousand and then quickly hire new workers in Asia, something needs to be done for that displacement. We've all seen it--a huge company lays off tens of thousands of workers in June and then 6 months later their CEO gets an 8 million dollar bonus. The company calls it "restructuring." site>

Credits - Photos (in Flash piece)

  • http://www.basetree.com/photos/ sets/photography30.html
  • http://www.outsourcingrussia.com
  • http://www.bobpearlman.org/Strategies/Offshoring/BangaloreSm.jpg
  • http://www.silicon.com/i/s/illo/other/IMG_0114.jpg
  • http://www.nichols.edu/faculty/libbamoore/HRM213/outsourcing%20articles/Issues
    %20Controversies%2004_files/image001.jpg

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