Britain's first TV soap, Coronation Street, was born into an era of working class values.
Michael Gove, the education secretary, thinks that was fine when many children helped out in the fields, but it is hardly suited to an era of working mothers and a global race for educational attainment.
A bulwark of American life since the days of small farms hacked from the wilderness, the tradition of sons' succeeding fathers in the workplace may be less routine now, in an era of working women, large public corporations and economic prosperity that gives offspring the freedom to strike out alone.
Now, however, as knowledge work expands and technology advances, we've entered an era of hyperspecialization: Work previously done by one person is divided into more-specialized pieces done by multiple people, achieving improvements in quality, speed, and cost.
That has always been true for efficiency reasons, but collaborative helping becomes even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes depend on high creativity in often very complex projects.
What jumped out at me was the emotional pain with which this smart, ambitious mother of two concluded that in an era of limited work opportunities for women, the only way to keep her family afloat was to take up with a "Sugar Daddy".
MIT historian Fitzgerald writes on the value of more in-person community on campuses in an era of when working remotely has become common.
There is a massive opportunity for startups to define a new era of work, and it's not just the products and platforms they build that will look completely different, but in some cases, their business models as well.
He has described the album as the end of a certain era of work, and though it's unclear why it took him thirteen years to get around to doing it, that's exactly what it is.
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As technology pushes many entrepreneurs and startups towards a "new era of work", we also face the impending reality of 2 billion jobs disappearing by 2030.
