CAPITALISM

Boston Globe: The White Collar Migration - Part 1

As Economy Gains, Outsourcing Surges

MANILA -- To hear how far and deep the outsourcing of American jobs has traveled, listen to Christian Mancenon in barely accented English take an order over the phone for HBO from a man in Lebanon, Ill.

"I'm showing here that you love movies," the 25-year-old Filipino said, while looking at his computer screen in a low-rise building in Makati, Manila's business district. Mancenon and 600 others work for a subsidiary of Philippines Long Distance Telephone Co. that fields customer calls for Dish Network satellite TV of Littleton, Colo.

Boston Globe: The White Collar Migration - Part 2

US Workers See Hard Times High-Tech Firms Say Outsourcing Crucial To Survival

FRAMINGHAM -- Andre Brassard keeps sending out resumes but has largely given up on the profession that employed him for a decade: writing software.

In his old department at Mindspeed Technologies Inc., most of the software engineers are gone. The work Brassard and his colleagues did is now largely done in Ukraine for one-quarter to one-third the cost.

"Kapitalismus macht arbeitslos"