1. Introduction: The Political Economy of the Post-Industrial Age ; PART 1: SOCIO-ECONOMIC REGIMES AND THE SERVICE TRANSITION ; 2. A Political-Institutional Model of Real Exchange Rates, Competitiveness, and the Division of Labor ; 3. The Trilemma Revisited: Implications for Inequality and Employment Creation of the ICT Revolution and the Expansion of Service Trade ; 4. The Service Transition and Women's Employment ; 5. Pathways of Change in Coordinated Market Economies: Training Regimes in Germany and the Netherlands ; 6. A Tale of Two Trilemmas: Varieties of Higher Education and the Service Economy ; PART 2: POLITICAL OUTCOMES OF ECONOMIC CHANGE ; 7. De-Industrialization and the Expansion of the Welfare State: A Reassessment ; 8. Service Expansion, International Exposure, and Political Preferences ; 9. The Political Economy of Working Time and Redistribution ; 10. The Political Economy of Gender in Service Sector Economies.