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Sunrise industries: Leading the Revolution
Author(s) -
Jones B.O.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1177/103841118302100308
Subject(s) - business , sunrise , telecommunications , software , marketing , industrial organization , operations management , economics , computer science , geography , meteorology , programming language
Since the mid‐1970s there has been a growing recognition that Australia's economic base has been, undergoing a fundamental change — a decline in employment in manufacturing and a growth in employment in services (many increasingly marginal and peripheral), altered patterns in consumer demand generally (from hardware to software'), the development of technologies which are far less dependent on cheap raw materials and abundant energy and far more on access to high and rising levels of skill.