Arguments Against Offshoring

Abstract

In the previous chapter, I examined the various arguments that Corporate America, in its numerous guises, uses to justify offshore outsourcing. I’ll admit that I had ulterior motives aside from just trying to be evenhanded. Like a stack of wooden blocks, I carefully built up the conceptual framework of offshoring proponents just so I could knock it back down. In the pages that follow, I’ll address each pro-offshoring argument in turn, chopping away at its underpinnings until it collapses under the force of its own shortcomings.