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Direct linkTodd, Lee T., Jr. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2006
Today, many high-tech, professional jobs are being sent overseas. According to TechsUnite.org, more than 150,000 technology jobs have been lost to offshoring since 2000. In this article, the author asserts that American colleges and universities are uniquely poised to help confront this economic challenge by providing basic and applied research…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Technological Advancement, Professional Occupations, Colleges
Download full textSchirmer, Peter; Goetz, Stephan J. – 1996
New corporate practices and strategies, technological advances and rising job skill requirements are making postsecondary training a virtual necessity for a high-paying job. This is driving a wedge between the earnings of education "haves" and "have nots." Corporate restructuring is eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Corporations, Dislocated Workers
Devinatz, Victor G. – 1999
This book, which is based on a 7-month ethnographic study of working conditions and employment practices at a biomedical electronics factory, examines the impact that high tech has had on the relationship between management and workers in the manufacturing industry. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's 10 chapters: (1) the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Biomedical Equipment, Career Education, Case Studies
