Global Shift to the Service Industry
source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070904/ts_csm/alabor;_ylt=AsBUB.miZm1el0ppxSaqNaCs0NUE
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"For the first time in human history, more people are laboring in service trades than in food production, according to data gathered by the International Labor Organization (ILO), an agency affiliated with the United Nations." - I guess that would make sense. Farms are being taken over by big companies and robots.
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In the same report, Americans take the top place in the highest productivity rating, at least based on total hours worked. Norway, however, led with the highest productivity per hour.
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khsing
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Sociologist Daniel Bell's influential 1976 work, "The Coming of Post-Industrial Society," predicted this trend correctly over 30 years ago, and there has been nothing to suggest anything but prescience on his part.
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