Service Industries in the Global Economy

Edited by John R. Bryson, Professor of Enterprise and Economic Geography, Department of Strategy and International Business, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham and the late Peter W. Daniels, formerly Emeritus Professor of Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

• Contents: Volume I: Introduction Part I: Towards the Service or Post-Industrial Society Part II: Theories of the Service Economy Part III: Service Employment Part IV: The Nature of Service Work Part V: Social Polarization and the Rise of the Service Class • Volume II: Introduction (as vol 1) Part I: Services and Economic Development Part II: Producer Services Part III: Multinational Service Firms Volume IV: Services, Technological Change and Globalization

'The papers it contains make compelling reading on the problematic nature of defining service activities and occupations, and the difficulty of accounting for the growth in service employment given the evolution of the broader economic system of which services are a part and the heterogeneity of the sector itself. . . . The structure of the collection has been carefully thought through and coheres well. . . . brings together a set of important articles from a diverse range of journals, the scope of which is likely to be represented in only the largest of university libraries' holdings.'