Is more growth in the service sector possible without an expanding manufactoring sector? How great is the need for low-skill, low-paid jobs in the provision of services to households? These and many other questions are addressed in this book

The rise to prominence of the service sector - heralded over half a century ago as the great hope for the twenty-first century - has come to fruition. In many cases, employment in the service sector now outnumbers that in manufacturing sectors, and it is accepted that in all developed countries,...