Sectoral shifts to services came at agriculture’s expense, not manufacturing’s

Evidence

Commentators were quick to point out the misinterpretation of economic trends committed by theorists of postindustrial society. The rise in the proportion of output and employment taken by services which is indeed one of the major secular changes in twen­ tieth-century capitalism has taken place primarily at the expense of agriculture rather than manufacturing industry. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 463

Categorization

• XREF: Directly counters postindustrial theory and Daniel Bell’s ‘post-industrial society’ thesis which Jameson builds upon; relevant to the reader’s Marxist critique project.