Knowledge Workers

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David Hookes:

"Most significantly, the majority of workers in many advanced economies are now information workers and expend most energy, for which they receive wages, using their own information processing and control organ, the brain, rather than their muscles. A dominant subgroup of the information proletariat, the knowledge workers, deals in a universal quantity, knowledge, especially scientific and technical knowledge. Because of this unique position they form the group most aware of the impending climate and environmental crises. In addition they also possess the skills and knowledge to create the technologies for alter-globalisation. In order to implement a program they must, of course, form alliances with all other sections of the working class." (http://hometown.aol.co.uk/davehookes/Newyork1.pdf)