What are some service jobs?

What do "Service jobs" do and why they replaced industrial jobs in England and USA?

• what they did before service jobs? can give examples?

• Answer:

  Service jobs are those in industries that produce services rather than goods. They have replaced industrial jobs only partially; in the Appalachian region of America and in the industrial North of England, especially ex-coalmining communities, unemployment has replaced these jobs. Heavy industrial jobs were male jobs by and large, because of the gigantic physical strain they required. Even after improvements in safety and labour-saving machinery were introduced coal and steel remained difficult, dangerous and dirty. In fact the trajectory of jobs markets in the developed world has tended to follow this pattern: primary industry - secondary industry - service. Primary industries like coal and steel make the things everything else is made from. Their location tends to be on top of major deposits of coal or iron ore or both. They produce the materials on which secondary industry operates. Secondary industries produce goods themselves, often consumer rather than industrial goods. Detroit in the US and Sheffield in the UK are good examples. These industries have been outsourced essentially because labour is cheaper in the third world. As a result we in the first world no longer produce anything, we just sell each other the (frequently inferior) products made abroad. The fault lies not with the foreign workers or the mostly impotent foreign governments but with the corporations whose economic decisions are international. There was a time when service industries took up almost as high a proportion of British economic activities as they do now, and that time was before the first world war, when most British workers were in service in other people's houses. Food for thought.