"Robert Green" wrote in message
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the author says "High-school shop-class programs were widely dismantled in
the 1990s as educators prepared students to become "knowledge workers." .
.
. The Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues that the crucial distinction
in the emerging labor market is not between those with more or less
education, but between those whose services can be delivered over a wire
and
those who must do their work in person or on site. The latter will find
their livelihoods more secure against outsourcing to distant countries. As
Blinder puts it, "You can't hammer a nail over the Internet." Nor can the
Indians fix your car. Because they are in India.


This book addresses that issue, as well as the fact that many people will
find a career in which they make or fix things to be much more personally
rewarding than one in which they move digital paper around.

http://www.amazon.com/Shop-Class-Sou...8033368&sr=1-1