Resources

Maps & Tables

Employment Security Commission of North Carolina (Employment and Wages)
http://eslmi12.esc.state.nc.us/ew/EWYear.asp?Report=1

Employment Security Commission of North Carolina (Largest Employers)
http://jobs.esc.state.nc.us/lmi/largest/list1.htm

North Carolina Department of Commerce (County Statistics)
http://cmedis.commerce.state.nc.us/countyprofiles/

U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Technology Policy. Retrieved from Lexis-Nexis database

Dimensions of Globalization

Dicken. Peter Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economy Map in the 21^st Century (The Guilford Press, 2003)

Engardio, Pete. Bernstein, Aaron. Kripalani, Manjeet. "The New Global Shift," Business Week, 3 Feb. 2003, Cover Story
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_05/b3818001.htm

“Insourcing: When Foreign Companies Establish Jobs in the U.S.,” The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), 2 Feb. 2004, sec.A13
http://www.wcit.org/topics/imports/outsourcing_2-04.htm

O Meara, Kelly Patricia. “Cheap Labor at America's Expense: 3.3 Million U.S. Jobs Moved Offshore By 2015” World Net Daily, 20 May 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/915155/posts

Environmental & Social Issues

Jim McKay. "It Hurts if it's Your Job Going Abroad." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  Sooner Edition 22 Mar 2004, p. A-1. Retrieved from Lexis-Nexis database

Spencer E. Ante and Ben Elgin. "HP vs. IBM: Outsourcing Duels". Business Week. 23 Feb 2004, p. 13. Retrieved from Lexis-Nexis database

Thomas Claburn. "What's Next for India?" InformationWeek.  5 Jan 2004, p. 45. Retrieved from Lexis-Nexis database

Case Studies

IBM Official History
http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/history_intro.html

Research Triangle Park Facts & Figures
http://www.rtp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=facts_and_figures_fact_sheet.html

Research Triangle Park Largest Employers (http://www.rtp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=facts_and_figures_largest_employers.html)

Policy Implications

Information Technology Association of America--Official website
http://www.itaa.org/

North Carolina Community College System--Official website
http://www.ncccs.cc.nc.us/

North Carolina Electronics & Information Technologies Association--Official website
http://www.nceita.org/