What Went Wrong: Outsourcing
As Apple grew, American workers left behind
Nov. 16, 2011
Apple moved its production offshore in less than a generation and changing the career path of many of its workers. One of its workers describes a current and future life of temporary jobs that will keep him on the move, with retirement not in sight.
American Steal: How U.S. steelworkers lost to China
Oct. 15, 2011
The reconstruction of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is well timed to create much-needed jobs. And it has. Only the jobs are in China. Will the outsourcing of this $12 billion project deliver a death blow to the American steel industry?
Profile: JD Galvin, IT worker
March 10, 2011
JD Galvin studied substance abuse counseling in college, and started his career in human services. He switched to IT in 2000 and was laid off two years ago. He has yet to find a new job. He's now active in the 99ers movement, an effort to organize people who have exhausted all available unemployment benefits.
Profile: Wayne Drescher, automotive IT worker
March 10, 2011
Wayne Drescher worked in automotive IT in Indiana. He was with his company for 23 years before being laid off from his position more than two years ago. Here is an edited excerpt of their conversation.
Profile: Alan Gunderson, computer programmer
March 10, 2011
Alan Gunderson, 52, worked as a systems analyst and computer programmer in Tulsa, Okla. When he quit his job in July 2008, he had never been out of a job longer than a month. After two years out of work he landed a new job nine months ago, earning $15,000 less with no guaranteed benefits.
Programming jobs fall, despite Labor Department's outlook
March 10, 2011
In 1990, the U.S. Department of Labor predicted there would be more well-paid jobs for programmers with four years of college. They were wrong. Employment fluctuated in the years following the report, then settled into a slow downward pattern after 2000.
