Material production remains indispensable even where services dominate employment

Evidence

The fact that fewer people are employed in material production does not in any case alter the fact that no one can survive without the industrial goods manufactured by these people. Not only do human beings continue to have the same mundane needs for food, clothing, shelter and the like, but rising living standards and the associated expansion of mass consumption entail a proliferation of material goods, particularly given the tendency noted above for services to be replaced with consumer durables. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 480

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Material forces of production are the measureable skeleton of historical process — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1648; Industrialism is machinery-based production affecting far more than factories — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 151

Broader Connections

• Material forces of production are the measureable skeleton of historical process #corroborates (0.82) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1648
• Industrialism is machinery-based production affecting far more than factories #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 151