Brains and brawn: Does manual labor belong in the modern economy?

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Action Institute - 8/10/2017 - Joseph Sunde - As economic prosperity continues to spread, and as the American economy completes its transition into the age of information, manual labor is increasingly cast down in the popular imagination. When our youth navigate and graduate from high school, they receive a range of pressures to attend four-year colleges and pursue various “white-collar” careers, whether in finance or law or tech or the academy. Jobs that require physical labor, on the other hand, are not so high on the minds of parents, pastors, teachers, and politicians — despite the tremendous demand. Read more @ http://blog.acton.org/archives/97348-br ... onomy.html