fects of state policies, organized labour, and the women's movement.
             Generally, the new form of society is referred to as a post-industrial society. The claim that we are living in a 'post-industrial society' is associated with Professor Daniel Bell (1973), who cited in favour of his claim figures showing that in 1947 over half the US workforce was employed in goods-producing sectors and just under a half in the service sector. By 1980, he predicted, the share of the workforce employed in the manufacturing sector would fall to 32%. This prediction has certainly been borne out by developments in all developed industrial nations. For Bell, our times are marked by an increasing reliance of science and technology, research and development, information and knowledge – what he terms as the use of 'theoretical knowledge' to increase organizations as well as governments control and command. In Canada, for example, in a 1991 report, Statistics Canada said: "Since the beginning of the century, the number of people working has grown more rapidly in the service sector than the goods-producing sector." It goes on to say that in 1911 one in three persons was employed in the service sector while, in 1991, more than two out of three were in that sector. In May 2000, Statistics Canad
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