Post-industrial society is a concept in economics describing when the service sector produces more wealth than the industrial or manufacturing sector in some countries.
The concept was popularized by Daniel Bell, and is closely related to similar concepts such as post-fordism, information society, knowledge economy, post-industrial economy, liquid modernity, and network society.
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