Geography
An empirical assessment of the informational society: Employment and occupational structures of G-7 countries, 1920-2000
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The 1990s marked a turning point in the evolution of employment and occupational structures in the G-7 economies: the advent of the informational society. Drawing on a comparative analysis of employment data up to 2000, this article gives empirical support to the authors' theory - introduced in Vol. 133 (1994), No.1 of the Review - that informationalism offers a better explanation for the pattern of structural change observed in those countries than does the theory of post-industrialism with its focus on service-sector employment. The analytical focus, they argue, now needs to shift from services to information-processing as the dominant activity in advanced economies.
Publication Title
International Labour Review
Publication Date
1-1-2002
Volume
141
Issue
1-2
First Page
123
Last Page
159
ISSN
0020-7780
DOI
10.1111/j.1564-913x.2002.tb00233.x
Keywords
employement, Group of Seven Countries
Repository Citation
Aoyama, Yuko and Castells, Manuel, "An empirical assessment of the informational society: Employment and occupational structures of G-7 countries, 1920-2000" (2002). Geography. 851.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/851