Death of the Proletariat

[John Woodford]

If it works like a prole, is paid by a prole, has the relations to the 
means of production as a prole--then it's a prole no matter what age 
Drucker may say it lives in or what commodity it's trucking.
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>From bautiste at uswest.net, on 7/15/98 6:10 PM:
On the discussion of the death of the unions, the following Atlantic 
article at

http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/election/connection/ecbig/soctrans.htm
might interest some on this list.

As you may know, Drucker is the management guru who some say invented
management "science." In this article he prophesies the demise of the
proletariat and discusses what he calls the knowledge worker. You may not 
buy
into his argument, but I think his discussion is provocative and 
insightful.

I know Doug H. has done some work in undermining the notion that we are
entering the Age of Information and that this will bring the kinds of 
rewards
that folks like Drucker espouse, but he has not taken on Drucker head on.
Anyone know of any interesting articles dealing with Drucker's thesis?

chuck miller