Monday, February 20, 2012

Outsourcing

In Baby Mama, the movie written by and starring Tina Fey, there is a scene where Tina Fey's character Kate goes to the surrogacy agency and talks to Chaffee Bicknell about how the whole surrogacy process works.

Kate asks why these women do it, why would they carry someone else's child. 
Chaffee Bicknell, a woman obsessed with her own class, asks Kate if she plans to hire a nanny. 
Kate replies "Of course I do, I have to go back to work."
Bicknell then explains that as successful women in the workforce they outsource, they hire others to do their dirty work for them.  She says that hiring a surrogate mother is the same thing as hiring a nanny, it's someone to take care of your child before they're born versus the nanny to take care of them after they are born.  She tells Kate that Kate's job is probably hard but she likes it and is good at what she does.  A surrogate mother is just the same with her job.
Kate then takes this analogy to the literal sociology definition of outsourcing and asks: "You don't mean my child will be carried by some underprivileged, white trash woman do you?"

Yes. Yes, she does.

In economic terms, wealthy countries used to have separate colonies which they used for outsourcing.  Now countries use corporations to outsource by having poorer nations do the manual labor parts of the job for less money.  Essentially they are exploiting workers from other nations by taking advantage of the fact that they will work for less pay and in worse conditions.  Unfortunately, a great example of economic outsourcing is Nike.

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