Is Work Really Turning Full Cycle In The Western World? More And More People Are No Longer Travelling And Opting To Work From Home.
Saturday, July 31st, 2010The 1800’s modified education and the workplace on a huge scale. Compulsory education meant more children required to be taught. There was no obvious way to rapidly augment teaching staff, so children were grouped into classes and classes were located in schools. I like to think that mandatory education was entirely an altruistic change in society, but perhaps it also conditioned our children to large buildings with loads of people in them. About the same time the Industrial revolution started, and the schools provided a pool of skilled young adults for the factories and the heavy industries. So the factories now took on people who used to Work From Home, and so it has been in Western Europe and North America until the late 1970’s.