The White-Collar Job Apocalypse That Didn’t Happen

The White-Collar Job Apocalypse That Didn’t Happen

Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times

Ron Kincaid remembers what it was like to worry that his job would be sent overseas.

Globalization had ravaged American manufacturing, and now, in the first years of the new century, economists were warning that offshoring — the relocating of work to other countries — was coming for white-collar jobs like his as well.For Mr. Kincaid, the evidence seemed close at hand; he overheard conversations through his boss’s open office door about which foreign contractors should take over which jobs at the automobile finance company where he worked. He remembers the meeting where an […]

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