Manufacturing still requires workers to come together in a centralized factory, but the same can't be said of knowledge industries like law. (slaw.ca)
This is manifested in the economic life as the giant economic corporation, in the political life as the state bureaucracy and modern military organization, in the cultural life as the information and knowledge industry such as the universities and coqunication media. (religion-online.org)
These are people whose livelihood was shrunk or destroyed by the initial destruction of older industries (coal and fishing for instance) and who did not benefit from the shift to the so - called creative or knowledge industries so beloved of Blairism. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)