Laura Shamas

Re-Sourcing Laura Shamas

When workers in Arkansas find their jobs have been outsourced to India, they devise a plan. ..". Laura Shamas, tilting on its axis the recent trend of outsourcing American jobs to foreign countries, has concocted a plot for RE-SOURCING that's as original as it is loaded with comic possibilities ..." -Jeff Favre, Backstage West ..". Shamas has a point to make about the outsourcing of U S jobs to other countries ... There are funny moments ..." -F Kathleen Foley, Los Angeles Times ..". hilarious RE-SOURCING, a controversial farce sticking it to 'The Man' ... A combination situation comedy and political lesson, RE-SOURCING contains a serious message ... Writer Laura Shamas presents telling tidbits of historical data and current outsourcing and job woes among American working class, leavened with strong humor. As the public feels growing rage around the destruction of the American middle class and working class to feed the skyrocketing salary increases of C E Os, RE-SOURCING humorously resolves the situation." -Mary Mallory, Tolucan Times "Laura Shamas deftly and humorously suggests that we ought to consider the ways in which labor is exploited both within U S borders and across borders." -Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine