Every day, we read about another corporate giant replacing thousands of American jobs by moving operations to India, China or another foreign country where skills equal to those of Americans can be purchased at a fraction of U.S. wages and salaries.
I also think the author's "First World" to "Third World" points make some sense...
However, this being a topic of such concern to everyone, what I would really like to see is a detailed list of specific "corporate giants" who haved moved US jobs to other countries, including how many jobs were moved, which countries they went to, and whether the companies also created any new jobs here (like a "net" gain or loss of US employees in all jobs, per company)
That information would be more "productive" to the discussion than simply saying "Every day we read about another corporate giant..." etc. etc.
I don't have all of the specifics, but this is what I was able to find. Exporting America
Corporations exporting jobs overseas.
3Com 3M A Accenture Adaptec Adobe Systems AMD Aetna Agere Systems Agilent Tech. AIG Alamo Rent A Car Albertson's Alliance Semiconductor Allstate Alpha Thought Global American Express American Standard Amphenol Corp. Andrew Corp. AOL Applied Materials AT&T AT&T Wireless A.T. Kearney Avery Dennison B Bank of America Bank One Bechtel BellSouth Best Buy Black & Decker BMC Software Boeing C Capital One Carrier Cendant Cerner Corporation Charles Schwab ChevronTexaco Ciena Cigna Circuit City, Inc. Cisco Systems Citigroup Coca-Cola Comcast Holdings Computer Associates Computer Sciences Corporation Continental Airlines Convergys Cooper Tire & Rubber Cooper Tools COVAD Comm. CSX Cummins D Dell Computer Delta Air Lines Direct TV Discover Document Sciences Corp. DuPont E Earthlink Eastman Kodak Eaton Corporation EDS Electroglas Electronics for Imaging Eli Lilly EMC Emerson Electric Ernst & Young Expedia ExxonMobil F Fedders Corporation Fidelity Investments First American Title Ins. First Data Fluor Ford Motor Franklin Mint G Gateway General Electric GlobespanVirata Goldman Sachs Goodrich Google Greenpoint Mortgage Guardian Life Insurance H The Hartford Financial Services Group HealthAxis Hewitt Associates Hewlett-Packard HSN I IBM IndyMac Bancorp Intel Intl. Paper Intuit ITT Educational Services J Jacuzzi JDS Uniphase Johnson & Johnson JPMorgan Chase Juniper Networks K KANA Software Kaiser Permanente Keane KLA-Tencor L Lehman Brothers Levi Strauss Lexmark International Lifescan Lillian Vernon Linksys Lockheed Martin Lowe's Lucent M Maritz Marshall Fields Mattel Maytag McDATA Corporation Mellon Bank Merrill Corporation Merrill Lynch Metasolv MetLife Microsoft Monsanto Morgan Stanley Motorola N Nabco National City Corporation NCR Corporation Network Associates Newell Rubbermaid New York Life Insurance Co. Northwest Airlines O Office Depot ON Semiconductor Oracle Otis Elevator Co. Owens Corning P palmOne Parker-Hannifin Parsons E&C Pearson Digital Learning Pericom Semiconductor Perot Systems Pfizer Planar Systems Portal Software Pratt & Whitney Primus Telecom Procter & Gamble Providian Financial Prudential Insurance Q Qwest Comm. R Rainbow Technologies Raytheon Aircraft Regence Group Rohm & Haas RR Donnelley & Sons S SAIC SBC Comm. SEI Investments Siebel Systems Sikorsky Solectron Sovereign Bancorp Sprint Sprint PCS State Farm Insurance StorageTek SunTrust Banks SurePrep The Sutherland Group Sykes Enterprises T Target Tecumseh Telcordia TeleTech Texas Inst. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Time Warner Triquint Semiconductor TRW Automotive Tyco Electronics Tyco Intl. U Unisys United Online United Tech. V VA Software Veritas Verizon W Wachovia Bank Washington Group Intl. Washington Mutual West Corporation Y Yahoo!