The two worlds
Manual labour work shifted to the developing countries in the last five to ten years. The main idea behind this is to exploit the availability of the cheap labour force of the developing countries to produce at lower costs and keep the knowledge based work for the developed countries in order to facilitate better management services. This situation will have a big impact on the economy, education and health.
Manual labour “out-sourcing” will have significant impact on the economic sector. First of all, the entrepreneurs of the developed countries will clearly make more profits. Since they hold the patents and the managerial sector they will earn more. Moreover, the consumers of the developed countries will have more buying power as they get products at a cheaper price. Conversely for the developing countries, the consequence will not be good in the long run even though they firmly welcome this system. Since they earn very low wages and there is no income from the patents they will fall behind economically.
Besides the economy, the “out-sourcing” policy will create important changes in the education system also. Higher level education and research will not be appreciated in the developing countries. Consequently, they will focus on building more technical schools. On the other hand, the developed countries will have more universities, and more research and development will be appreciated.
The most important impact of manual labour “out-sourcing” will be on people's health. The people of the developing countries will have no options other than working in factories. These jobs are very hard and sometimes dangerous. As a result, those people will lose their ability to work. They will face serious health problems.
The manual labour out-sourcing system will not open the opportunities for the developing countries to grow their economies, to develop their education system to a competitive level and to grow productive and healthy people. Moreover, it will not be good for the whole world, because the developed countries will eventually have to carry the burden. It would be a better idea to introduce a mixed policy of “out-sourcing” and “in-sourcing” of manual labour and knowledge-based work force.
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