Mapping Information-Sector Work to the Work Force
While advanced industrialized nations like the U.S. have been gradually developing information-sector employment along with the IT evolution, newly industrializing nations are leapfrogging directly from traditional agrarian to state-of-the-art information economies. Ireland is a prime example of such a nation. The rapid transformation of Ireland's work force during the closing decades of the 20th century was the object of an ethnographic investigation of the fit between aspects of Irish society and the emergence of its information economy [1].
