Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005

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From: M Holmes
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:32

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In ed.general David M <david@bogus.domain.dom> wrote:

>>> And the cheap labour is no longer cheap enough.  I was listening to a
>>> Radio 4 prog the other day...  reporting from Africa (forget which
>>> country..  possibly Gambia), where call centres are being set up to
>>> employ local cheap labour as the local cheap labour is even cheaper
>>> than the cheap labour in India which undercut the jobs in the UK.. 
>>
>> That's the best news I've heard from Africa in quite some time. 

> Fair enough, but what are the Indians who've now lost their jobs (and
> their British counterparts before them) supposed to do to work now?

Software.

> I really can't see how the "chase to the bottom" can result in anything
> other than temporary employment for a given area before the jobs move on
> to somewhere even cheaper.. 

Which in the meantime means a whole load of folks getting out of proverty.

> Repeat ad infinitum..?

With any luck. 

FoFP

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From: M Holmes <fofp@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1     July 2005
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