the service sector is expanding strongly. Despite this, services are in fact "industry-related services"
and have developed against the backdrop of the introduction of new technology and/or new ways of
Working without limits . the form of services. In addition to this a "purer" service sector in communications, service, trade,
education, health care, etc. has taken a larger share of the labour market. In Sweden, a large proportion
of this increase – at least up until the early 1990s took place with the public sector as the employer.
This is especially true in the health care and education sectors. In other mature industrial economies
the private service sector has expanded the most (Magnusson 1999).
The change that is currently under way is the change in work
that occurs following the introduction of new technology and new ways of organizing activities.
Service jobs are in many respects radically different from the old type of industrial work
expected to have a good general education and the capacity to accommodate solutions to changing
circumstances. In more basic service jobs the formal level of skill is often low, whereas a high degree
of social skills is demanded.