During the Industrial Age, factory workers saw their knowledge and paychecks grow as they mastered new processes to mass produce everything from automobiles to armaments.

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In addition, with modern technologies and the emphasis on information as a method of currency, people can work in information and knowledge jobs much longer than they could in factory or other manual labor jobs, and can do so from their homes.

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Students divide their time between classrooms and the factory floor, acquiring a lot of knowledge on the job.

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When managers managed with a spreadsheet rather than real-world knowledge about what was actually going on in the factory and what were its possibilities, they overlooked hidden costs of the erosion of skills, the loss of quality and constraints on innovation.

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He is spurred on by the knowledge that two of the men we interviewed with him in the factory, just 12 months ago, have already made it to northern Europe.

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