What was the effect of the decline in jobs in industrial manufacturing?

More people became employed in the service sector.

The number of temporary workers decreased.

The United States imported fewer goods.

The arrival of foreign-born workers in Mexico in pursuit of employment or Another argument put forward to explain manufacturing's decline is fast rates of productivity growth in the manufacturing sector relative to other sectors in the economy. All else equal, rapid productivity growth in manufacturing implies that fewer workers are needed to produce a given amount of output