Susan Helper, the Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics, wrote an article explaining how outsourcing labor has contributed to lagging wages.
She explained why so-called “low-road” outsourcing results in poor job quality and why the tactic persists. She then offered a solution—“high-road” outsourcing, a method that could lead to better job quality and, ultimately, better products—and outlined ways in which supply chain structure could be changed.
Her piece was titled “Building high-road supply networks in the United States” and published by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.