![]() "The former were contracted out domestically where possible, while the latter were under increasing pressure from global labour markets. data entry, customer service, radiologists, etc.). haircuts, care work) and impersonal services that did not (e.g. Yet in the 1990s information and communications technologies enabled a number of those services to be offshored, and the relevant distinction came to be the one between services that required face-to-face encounters (e.g. administration) and non-tradable goods (e.g. small consumer goods), while non-tradable services (e.g. "Early outsourcing involved jobs with goods that could be shipped (e.g. not the author's words, but those of Alan Greenspan), or really, any jobs that won't hurt your mates in high-level management: The book concentrates on how "low-level jobs"(N.B. You've already guessed my stance on the matter, that it's likable to me much as somebody feeling you up without getting an OK, albeit while nabbing my pension and making damn sure my potential offspring won't survive me because of the climate kills on the planet (courtesy of capitalists). I'm quite certain - without verifying it - that Nick Srnicek does not really like capitalism I'm completely with him, if that is the case. ![]() The above quote from the book is true, in a roundabout way. "The argument of this book is that, with a long decline in manufacturing profitability, capitalism has turned to data as one way to maintain economic growth and vitality in the face of a sluggish production sector." ![]()
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