Jon Osborne's Blog

A Kinder, Gentler Age...or...The Beginning of the End?

For the first time in recorded U.S. employment history, employment in leisure and hospitality exceeds that of manufacturing.  As of June 2007, there were 14,146,000 workers in the leisure and hospitality sector, in excess of manufacturing's 14,142,000 workers.  By contrast, in 1939, employment in leisure and hospitality was about a fifth that of manufacturing.

To those who fret about the slow... More