Changing Industrial Structure and Job/Career Opportunity

The past 40 years have been increasingly spent applying the entire range of the sciences worldwide to finding solutions to society′s problems, both technological and economic. It is argued that the result is a two‐tier workforce – the first relatively secure and independent by virtue of its ability to accommodate to the new knowledge, the second lacking the first′s advantages and dependent on it. It is claimed that the incomes of those in the second tier in the US have been falling, and that the children of families from this tier are likely to find themselves being even less advantaged in the future as they become the workers of tomorrow.