CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The Fall of the Blue-Collar Worker
WHETHER HIGH-PAYING JOBS are growing or declining in the American economy is being hotly debated. But as important as the numbers is the fact that the new high-paying jobs are not where the old ones used to be.
For 30 years, from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s, high-paying jobs in all developed countries were concentrated in unskilled blue-collar work. Now a majority of the new high-paying jobs are in knowledge work: technicians, professionals, specialists of all kinds, managers. The qualification for the high-paying jobs of 20 years ago was a union card. Now it is formal schooling. ...
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