The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
The women's movement in the 1970s led more women into the workforce and got them closer to pay equality.
For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
Lots of hardworking, blue-collar people across America have lost their jobs since the 1990s - victims of the globalist policies of the Bushes and Clintons.
This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.
In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.
With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities.
Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.