0 used to describe an activity that does not involve making products:
Profits in the non-manufacturing sector, particularly at banks and other service-related industries, are still headed downward.
As of 1981, the manufacturing and the rest of the southern half was non-manufacturing (1986, 139-40).
This includes other non-manufacturing operations such as marking and packaging.
However, the typical man is much more likely to work for a manufacturing or hi-tech firm, whereas women are more concentrated in the non-manufacturing, health care, and financial industries.
First, if non-manufacturing sectors are generally less pollution intensive, then those countries starting with larger manufacturing sectors could reduce pollution as the importance of manufacturing in the economy falls.
Of those unemployed who were engaged in non-manufacturing work, only a small proportion will be able to work in factories without retraining.
Therefore, we can take it now as absolutely cast-iron that these clauses will not apply to non-manufacturing industry.
Estimates of decile, quartile and median earnings for those in non-manufacturing are not available for 1991.
I do not believe that it matters enormously whether the wealth is created by the manufacturing or non-manufacturing sectors.