Offshore: Exploring the Worlds of Global OutsourcingOffshore outsourcing the movement of jobs to lower wage countries is one of the defining features of globalization. Routine blue collar work has been going offshore for decades, but the digital revolution beginning in the 1990s extended this process to many parts of the service economy too. Politically controversial from the beginning, offshoring is conventionally seen as a threat to jobs, wages, and economic security in higher income countries,