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The Current And Future Workforce

In 1994, the venerable Peter Drucker offered to the world the article: The Age of Social Transformation (https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/95dec/chilearn/drucker.htm). First published in the Atlantic Magazine in November of that year, Drucker envisioned a world where the blue-collar worker (the ‘class’ (his word) that had displaced the farm worker) was now rapidly disappearing itself. Some in the United States at that time (and to a lesser degree now) blamed the loss of manufacturing positions in the US on movement of manufacturing offshore. Drucker, disagreeing with this premise, envisioned a world where now the ‘knowledge worker’ was ascendant. Over 20 years ago, Drucker said this: