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Why Some IT Jobs Stay: The Rise of Job Training in Information Technology

Why Some IT Jobs Stay: The Rise of Job Training in Information Technology Why Some IT Jobs Stay: The Rise of Job Training in Information Technolog y 57 Why Some IT Jobs Stay: The Rise of Job Training in Information Technology Karen Chapple and Matthew A. Zook N the past thirty years, the focus of the U.S. economy has shifted from the production of goods to the manipulation of knowledge. IThis has led to what Castells refers to as a new informationa l mode of development, in which “the source of productivity lies in the technology of knowledge generation, information processing, and Castells symbol communication ” (17). Castells is not alone in this assessment, as a number of other scholars within urban and economic develop- Hall Moss ment have identified knowledge and information manipulation as a Reich crucial component of the current economy. While these changes were the basis of much of the economi c boom in the United States in the 1990s, they also bring the dual threats Blakely of the dispersal and polarization of the workforce. For example, a Greider number of commentators see globalization and the rapid diffusion of Jones Wolman and Colamosca information technologies as foreshadowing the relocation of all types of jobs to lower cost locations. At http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Urban Technology Taylor & Francis

Why Some IT Jobs Stay: The Rise of Job Training in Information Technology

Journal of Urban Technology , Volume 9 (1): 27 – Apr 1, 2002
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1466-1853
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1063-0732
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10.1080/106307302317379837
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Why Some IT Jobs Stay: The Rise of Job Training in Information Technolog y 57 Why Some IT Jobs Stay: The Rise of Job Training in Information Technology Karen Chapple and Matthew A. Zook N the past thirty years, the focus of the U.S. economy has shifted from the production of goods to the manipulation of knowledge. IThis has led to what Castells refers to as a new informationa l mode of development, in which “the source of productivity lies in the technology of knowledge generation, information processing, and Castells symbol communication ” (17). Castells is not alone in this assessment, as a number of other scholars within urban and economic develop- Hall Moss ment have identified knowledge and information manipulation as a Reich crucial component of the current economy. While these changes were the basis of much of the economi c boom in the United States in the 1990s, they also bring the dual threats Blakely of the dispersal and polarization of the workforce. For example, a Greider number of commentators see globalization and the rapid diffusion of Jones Wolman and Colamosca information technologies as foreshadowing the relocation of all types of jobs to lower cost locations. At

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Published: Apr 1, 2002

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