Outsourcing Argumentative Analysis

When someone thinks of decreasing job availability in the U.S. it is more than often they focus on outsourcing and off-shoring of U.S. jobs. My motivation as a possible future job seeker in IT or retail is analyzing the prevailing topic of outsourcing and off-shoring manufacturing jobs from the U.S. and to answer, the possibility of retrieving and keeping jobs in the U.S. to decrease the number of those unemployed in retail and IT. In Omid Nodoushani’s and Joseph McKnight’s article, “Insourcing Strategy: A Response to Outsourcing and Off-Shoring on the United States” the authors advocate the implementation of the insourcing strategy within retail and IT industries which counters outsourcing and off-shoring by seeking to keep jobs and manufacturing
The authors discuss that there is no legal, valid ban on outsourcing as federal powers more than likely value the stakeholder’s interests and the freedom to act to support the U.S. (Nodoushani and McKnight 166). In addition to the legal view of outsourcing, legislation has been pushed by major cities like New York and Washington to promote industries to keep jobs in the U.S. through denying tax breaks, loss of tax incentives and repayment and cessation of subsidies (165). The authors provide information of more flexible unions and industries working together to create pay and productivity benefitting both the industry and worker. Therefore, the authors argue that in response to the support of government for insourcing industries, the retail and IT industries able to notice the better quality of American manufacturing and flexible unions are making the decision to insource easier (Nodoushani and McKnight 167-168). Legally outsourcing is allowed, but legislations are being passed to influence industries to insource and even though bringing back jobs from overseas can be difficult for industries, but the relations with labor unions allows for an easier movement back toward equilibrium of the demand and supply for jobs in retail and IT