autoworkers == un-skilled labor managers == skilled labor From Drucker's The Practice of Management: A scant twenty years ago, it was widely believed that th

autoworkers == un-skilled labor managers == skilled labor From Drucker's The Practice of Management: A scant twenty years ago, it was widely believed that the mass-production technology—yesterday’s industrial revolution—threw people out of work. Today we know that wherever it has been introduced, it has rapidly increased the number of job opportunities in industry. But it is still widely believed that mass production replaces skilled labor by unskilled labor. We know this today to be a fallacy. In the United States, for instance, where mass-production methods have been applied on the broadest scale, the class of employees that has been growing most rapidly in numbers and proportion is that of skilled and trained people. And the truly unskilled laborer of yesterday, who contributed only his brawn, has become the semi-skilled machine operator of today—a man of higher skill and education, producing more wealth, earning a vastly higher standard of living.[1] I think Drucker would argue that "Developers" are the new class of "Managers". [1]Drucker, Peter F. (2010-04-02). The Practice of Management (Kindle Locations 490-496). HarperBusiness. Kindle Edition.