Summary of Exporting America

• Autore: Reader Capitol
• Pubblicazione: Cork, : Primento Digital, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (23 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.6042
• Soggetto topico: Human capital -- United States -- Cost effectiveness; Industrial location -- Effect of labor market on; Manpower planning -- United States; Organizational effectiveness
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Book Presentation; Book Abstract; About the Author; Important Note About This Ebook; Summary of Exporting America (Lou Dobbs); Assault On Middle-Class Americans; The Myths Of Outsourcing And Free Trade; Myth No. 1: Outsourcing American jobs is good for our economy.; Myth No. 2: Outsourcing has improved productivity growth.; Myth No. 3: Outsourcing has created a demand for high-value jobs in America.; Myth No. 4: Outsourcing is simply a part of free trade and classical economists like Adam Smith and David Ricardo would have loved it. ; Myth No. 5: Our economy and consumers are strong enough to run large chronic deficits and historically, a trade surplus is a sign of a weakening economy.Myth No. 6: The only alternative to free trade is protectionism or "economic isolationism."; Myth No. 7: Job retraining is the way to deal with outsourcing. Whenever industries and jobs leave our shores, we'll retrain the workers for better jobs.; Myth No. 8: Outsourcing benefits everyone. Look at what happens when Honda outsources to the United States and builds cars here. The United States is insourcing as many jobs as it's exporting. ; Myth No. 9: The goal of outsourcing jobs overseas is to increase productivity, not simply to cut wage costs.Myth No. 10: When Corporate America outsources jobs overseas, it enlarges its knowledge base and creates not only more jobs here, but high-value jobs.; Myth No. 11: We want to see countries like India prosper and outsourcing helps their economies and their workers.; Myth No. 12: U.S. multinationals are outsourcing because Americans aren't well enough educated to fill the jobs. ; Myth No. 13: U.S. companies have to compete in a global market. Even if everyone agreed that outsourcing is terrible, there's no way to stop it.Finding The Solutions; Buy the Book; About the Summary Publisher; Copyright
• Sommario/riassunto: This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Lou Dobbs in his book "Exporting America: why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas". This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case Lou Dobbs' book.<br>Dobbs argues that the American dream must be preserved. <br>
• Altri titoli varianti: Summary; Summary of Exporting America
• Titolo autorizzato: Summary of Exporting America
• ISBN: 2-511-00072-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910164976003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II