title: The service economy and postindustrial society: a sociological critique.
abstract: The growth of the service sector in advanced capitalist societies is the empirical evidence in support of the ideological approach to our social systems as "postindustrial." By examining the content of so-called "service activities" and by relating the observed trends to the model of uneven development in the U.S., this article tries to explain the transformation of the social structure of the U.S. on the basis of the contradications inherent in the processes of accumulation of capital, class struggle, and state intervention.
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D004467:Economics; D004651:Employment; D007221:Industry; D011057:Politics; D012923:Social Class; D012924:Social Conditions; D012947:Social Work; D014481:United States