Knowledge workers are, to coin a term, “uniclass.”
The new majority, the “knowledge worker,” does not fit any interest-group definition. Knowledge workers are neither farmers nor labor nor business; they are employees of organizations. Yet they are not “proletarians” and do not feel “exploited” as a class. Collectively, they are “capitalists” through their pension funds. Many of them are themselves bosses and have “subordinates.” Yet they also have a boss themselves. They are not middle-class, either. They are, to coin a term, “uniclass”—though some of them make more money than others. It makes absolutely no difference to their social position whether they work for a business, a hospital, or a university. Knowledge workers who move from accounting work in a business to accounting work in a hospital are not changing social or economic position. They are changing a job.
This status implies no specific economic or social culture. So far there is no political concept, no political integration that fits them.
ACTION POINT: Knowledge workers are capitalists in both the old and new senses. Do you see any political party addressing the interests of these new capitalists?
The New Realities
* Source: The Daily Drucker by Peter F. Drucker