http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-events/the-21st-century-workforce-china-india-and-implications-for-the-u-s/ DiversityInc: Diversity and the Bottom Line Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-events/the-21st-century-workforce-china-india-and-implications-for-the-u-s/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 Anonymous Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:45:44 +0000 #comment-1344 These smposiums or whatever are only trying to point out the inevitiable, Western dominance of the World’s economies is ending. The amazing increase in the number of educated people Worldwide means that their will be no room to hide the unproductive.

]]> http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-events/the-21st-century-workforce-china-india-and-implications-for-the-u-s/comment-page-1/#comment-1343 Anonymous Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:24:33 +0000 #comment-1343 The implications of this shift in the workforce are simply enormous. We have lost much of our industrial base, and having shifted to being more of a service-oriented economy, now find ourselves being overwhelmed by the sheer volume of people coming out of Chinese and Indian universities with high technical skills, who can perform work well at lower costs than we do domestically. It seems to me that America needs to have an effort analogous to the Manhattan Project, aimed this time on increasing the number of high-tech workers that our colleges and universities are producing. It is also apparent that something must be done with businesses that continue to export their production and other operations off-shore, often without paying taxes on profits: I think these businesses should be taxed when they move off-shore. This may seem antithetical when we must become more productive domsetically, with our higher costs. How do we reduce the domestic costs to companies of doing business within the U.S.? Does this mean that there may be some kind of “cap” on profitability? From a humanistic perspective, we also have to remember worker safety and welfare. Forced productivity has its own dangers and moral dilemmas. We must also ensure that we do not expand the :”undercclass” within our society, who are having difficulty competing for work/jobs in this technological era…

]]> http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-events/the-21st-century-workforce-china-india-and-implications-for-the-u-s/comment-page-1/#comment-1342 Anonymous Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:40:48 +0000 #comment-1342 I read the thoughts of folks like Dr Fingold and always read them with some interest. There is a fascination with the outsourcing of jobs from this country to other countries such as India and China. I am also ever mindful of one of the “improvements” that China put into a factory they ran for a company. Steel barriers were installed to keep worker from flinging themselves to their deaths out the windows of the factories. We are told that this is the workforce that Americans need to learn to compete with, and granted that is to the extreme end of the spectrum (at least I think it is) no one considers the social and governmental upheaval here in the US in constantly trying to move us towards this type of competition. I suspect with all their fascination with the process, they overlook radical labor and governmental changes that would ensue.

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