"Job Growth in the 1990s: A Retrospect"
Journal article
By: Julie Hatch and Angela Clinton
Date: December 2000
Source: Hatch, Julie, and Angela Clinton. "Job Growth in the 1990s: A Retrospect." Monthly Labor Review 123, no. 12, December 2000, 13–14. Available online at http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2000/12/art1full.pdf; website home page: http://www.bls.gov (accessed June 6, 2003).
Introduction
As long as the postwar prosperity lasted, most Americans continued to think of employment in terms of industrial jobs. Yet already by the mid-1950s, the majority of the nation's workforce labored in white-collar rather than blue-collar jobs. In the 1990s, job growth exploded in the services industries, accounting for 70 percent of new jobs in the ten industries creating new employment. A number of employers began using what...
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