TY - JOUR AU - HOYT, KENNETH B. AB - Kenneth B. Hoyt is university distinguished professor, College of Education, Kansas State University, Manhattan. JUNE 1987 producing industries. Butler, for example, is one occupation within the service industries. Education is a kind of service-producing industry, but it is not included within the service industry set of occupations.) To clarify further, data in the Handbook make clear that it is absolutely false to contend that America has moved from an agricultural to an industrial to a post-industrial occupational society. Goods-producing industries are still alive and well in America. As a matter of fact, they are expected to increase 22% between 1982 and 1995 (from 27.1 million to 33.0 million). Today's popular myths about the disappearance offactory jobs because of the "high tech" revolution seem to stem primarily from the fact that Americans have lost about 500,000 jobs in the smokestack industries associated with automobile and steel production (Rosenthal, 1985). Job abolishment is no myth for displaced workers in these industries, but it would be mythical to apply that example to goods-producing industries in general. Given facts such as these, it seems safe to say that in terms of work, America has moved from being primarily an agricultural society to TI - The Impact of Technology on Occupational Change: Implications for Career Guidance JF - The Career Development Quarterly DO - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1987.tb00925.x DA - 1987-06-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-impact-of-technology-on-occupational-change-implications-for-hBrRdL7hkm SP - 269 VL - 35 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -