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U.S. Calls, India Answers!

Oregon has staked training grants, tax breaks and technological upgrades toward luring call-center work as one answer to an overseas flight of manufacturing jobs. Service employment steadily grew through the 1990s, providing a counter to the volatile manufacturing industry. As of January, at least 75 call centers helped keep afloat more than 20,000 Oregonians-up from about 15,000 2 1/2 years earlier, the state estimates. And the work is bolstering many hard-pressed rural areas. But those jobs now too, are vulnerable as technological advances enable them to flow abruptly to the lowest bidders continents away. Download complete article in PDF format.
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