India outsourcing outsourced jobs back to Americans

First we outsourced our call-center jobs to India. Now Indian firms are "cross-sourcing" some of those jobs back to Americans.

Sure, they still abuse America's H1-B visa system, bringing in as many as 30,000 indentured servants to the U.S. per year to earn below-minimum wage, but, thanks to demands in India for higher wages, at least some of those low-paying jobs are coming back to America!

Ronil Hira, a public policy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, said Indian workers make up more than 90 percent of most outsourcing companies' U.S. head counts. He and other critics argue that many of these workers are not more highly skilled than Americans, they simply work for less. "It's harming American workers," he said. "It's taking away their job opportunities, bringing down their wages and harming their working conditions."

To paraphrase Thomas Friedman, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." Score another one for flat-earth globalism!

As Indian companies grow in the U.S., outsourcing comes home

By Paul Glader

May 20, 2011 | Washington Post

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/as-indian-companies-grow-in-the-us-outsourcing-comes-home/2011/05/17/AFZbrp7G_story.html