Two terrific articles describe the present and future of factory work in America. The first from the New York Times on Apple's production system. The second a more comprehensive look at American manufacturing from the Atlantic. Both have the same…
Andy Grove in his Business Week commentary lays out a case that America is on track to have high unemployment long term. With all sorts of dangerous implications for the country, social and political as well as economic. He identifies two…
After reading my previous post on Apple, John Austin, of the State Board of Education and the Brookings Institution, sent me a terrific study. Its from the Personal Computing Industry Center at the UC Irvine. Its topic is job creation…