Of these, construction (SIC Division C) workers accounted for the largest portion of the labour force that works outdoors, with around 842,000 workers (8.1% of the labour force), whereas agriculture, forestry and fishing (SIC Division A) workers accounted for 535,000 workers (5.1%) in 2008 (Table 1) (8).
The largest portion of the labour force is engaged in services, followed respectively by manufacturing and agriculture.
The petroleum industry (including the manufacture of liquefied natural gas [LNG]) generates more than half of Brunei's GDP, although it employs a very small portion of the labour force.
More than three-fifths of the Argentine GDP and a comparable portion of the labour force are based on services, including retail trade, hotels, restaurants, trucking and other transportation, government, education, health care, and various other business and social services.
Maricopa county was one of the top urban agricultural producers in the country in 1980, but farming has since steadily lost ground to urban growth; now only a small portion of the labour force is engaged in food production.
Out of expedience, paternalism, promotional value or sheer ambition, these concerns found it useful to aggregate some portion of their labour pool at a single, highly ordered site – the better to ensure that employees' energies were properly directed toward the bottom line.
Furthermore, the proponents of the wages-fund doctrine had been unable to prove the existence of any kind of fund that maintained a predetermined relationship with capital, and they also failed to identify what portion of the labour force's contribution to a product was actually paid out in wages.
A fair amount of the raw materials processed in Ohio's factories come from the state's own resources, and a significant portion of the labour force is employed in manufacturing, although heavy basic industrial production has declined since the 1970s.
Precarious work has been a growing portion of the labour force since globalization started taking off around the 1980s, but Standing says it really took off after 2008.
