What Would Drucker Do Now? by Rick Wartzman

Author:Rick Wartzman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2010-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Education Over Apprenticeship

“Most people continue to believe that when manufacturing jobs decline, the country’s manufacturing base is threatened and has to be protected,” Drucker wrote in 2001, four years before he died. “They have great difficulty in accepting that, for the first time in history, society and economy are no longer dominated by manual work, and a country can feed, house, and clothe itself with only a small minority of its population engaged in such work.”

Drucker didn’t mean that people would cease using their hands altogether; in fact, in many cases, they might use them more. But their work will be “based on theoretical knowledge that can be acquired only through formal education,” he explained, “not through apprenticeship.”

All of this suggests that whatever investment GM is making in solidifying its manufacturing presence in the U.S. would be better spent on launching programs to retrain and redeploy its younger workers for a fate that, ultimately, many of them won’t be able to escape.

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