Back to the Future

 

Could the age-old, on-the-job training of apprenticeships help address rising income inequality?

By Miles Berry

John Calvin Stevens didn’t have the means to attend MIT,” says architectural historian Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Instead, he was “filling the inkwells, sweeping the dirty floors, and making sure there was plenty of drafting paper” as an 18-year-old apprentice under Portland’s most celebrated architect of the time, Francis Fassett.

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