316 RICHER AND THE POOR,POORER NOTES 1.The reader should note,of course,that lower wages in other areas of the world are of no particular attraction to global capital unless workers there are sufficiently productive to make the labor cost of producing each unit lower there than in higher-wage regions. Productivity in many low-wage areas of the world has improved due to the ease with which state-of-the-art factories and equipment can be installed there. 2.US Department of Commerce,Bureau of Labor Statistics,Wages of Unionized and Non-Unionized Workers',various issues. 3.The growing portion of the American labor force engaged in in-person services,relative to routine production,thus helps explain why the number of Americans lacking health insurance increased by at least 6 million during the 1980s. 4.The Census Bureau estimates that by the year 2000,at least 12 million Americans will work in health services-well over 6 per cent of the total work force. 5.In 1989,the entertainment business summoned to the United States $5.5 billion in foreign earnings-making it among the nation's largest export industries,just behind aerospace.US Department of Commerce,International Trade Commission,Composition of US Exports',various issues.316  RICHER AND THE POOR, POORER NOTES 1. The reader should note, of course, that lower wages in other areas of the world are of no particular attraction to global capital unless workers there are sufficiently productive to make the labor cost of producing each unit lower there than in higher­wage regions. Productivity in many low­wage areas of the world has improved due to the ease with which state­of­the­art factories and equipment can be installed there. 2. US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Labor Statistics, `Wages of Unionized and Non­Unionized Workers', various issues. 3. The growing portion of the American labor force engaged in in­person services, relative to routine production, thus helps explain why the number of Americans lacking health insurance increased by at least 6 million during the 1980s. 4. The Census Bureau estimates that by the year 2000, at least 12 million Americans will work in health services—well over 6 per cent of the total work force. 5. In 1989, the entertainment business summoned to the United States $5.5 billion in foreign earnings—making it among the nation's largest export industries, just behind aerospace. US Department of Commerce, International Trade Commission, `Composition of US Exports', various issues