“White-Collar Sweatshops”

Posted on July 9th, 2003 by Sacha Chua

Laid-off U.S. high-tech workers are disheartened by employers
bringing in foreign workers on H-1B visas and outsourcing IT
operations to overseas labor; not only are more critical
white-collar positions such as programming and software …
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0707m.html#item11

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