You can't steal second with your foot on first! by Hedges Burke

Author:Hedges, Burke [Hedges, Burke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New business enterprises, Success in business
Publisher: Tampa, FL : INTI Pub.
Published: 1995-06-04T19:00:00+00:00

The Rise And Fall Of The Late, Great Job

The Third Wave, the Information Age, was firmly established in this country during the mid-1950s, when, for the first time, white-collar workers outnumbered blue-collar workers.

Now let's look at the kinds of jobs people did in each of these ages and what that means to us today.

Giant Waves On A Sea Of Change

During the Agricultural Age, jobs were chores that everyone in the family was assigned to do. Milk the cows.. .plow the field.. .butcher the hogs. You get the idea. That's why farmers had big families.. .gave them lots of cheap labor. When this country was founded, 90 percent of the population lived and worked on farms. People didn't have jobs. They did jobs. The Agricultural Age in this country has nearly run its course, evidenced by the fact that today only two percent of Americans live and work on farms.

Then came the Industrial Revolution and a whole new way of organizing work. As factories opened, farmers' sons and daughters ran off to the city to find work and excitement. How yd gonna keep 'em down on the farm, after they've seen Par-reel the WWI song goes.

Factories paid workers more than they'd earn milking the family cow for "free," but there was a price to pay. People were treated like machines. A typical Industrial Age job was to put this nut on that bolt, over and over and over again. Even a dumb farmer's son could do that, right? Don't think. Just do the job.

So through the 1800s and up to the present day,

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