Reply #100: Do you think that manufacturing has been hit by outsourcing?

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Or is it just undocumented workers that have pushed out American workers?

http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/39474.html
Outsourcing of US Jobs: Bad or Good?

By Judy Olian
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
01/09/05 5:00 AM PT

Lori Kletzer of the University of California-Santa Cruz examined manufacturing job losses between 1979 and 1999 in labor-intensive industries such as clothing, footwear, leather and textiles. About one-third of displaced workers failed to find reemployment within a three-year period, and among those who did, about half experienced a substantial wage cut.

Data from Forrester Research, a leading IT consulting organization, lends support to Bhagwati's findings with estimates that 400,000 U.S. jobs had moved abroad by 2003 and that the total would hit 3.3 million by 2015.

There is other evidence in line with Samuelson's findings to suggest that jobs are lost, and lost forever, especially at the low end of the food chain. Lori Kletzer of the University of California-Santa Cruz examined manufacturing job losses between 1979 and 1999 in labor-intensive industries such as clothing, footwear, leather and textiles. About one-third of displaced workers failed to find reemployment within a three-year period, and among those who did, about half experienced a substantial wage cut of at least 15 percent.