ABSTRACT
The United States has undergone a marked shift from an economy producing largely physical goods, to one in which services account for the employment of the majority of the labor force. The American labor force has grown in numbers; in the long run, almost entirely as a consequence of general population increase. In examining the social context of the labor force comparatively, Jaffe and Stewart have correlated various aspects of social life with an index of the labor force structure. The skills of the working force have also changed, but somewhat less rapidly than the distribution of the industries in which they are practiced. Types of industry are changing, types of industrial skills are changing, and even the locale of work itself is shifting. The American labor force is truly a mobile one. The American people showed a remarkable capacity to shift into the labor force under the demands of a national emergency.
