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Handouts  \nThe New Conservatism and a New World Order  \nWorkbook \\#14  \nStudent Handouts (Order \\#3780974)    \n© Student Handouts, [Inc. www.studenthandouts.com](Inc. www.studenthandouts.com)  \nWorkbooks in This Series:  \n1. Early America  \n2. The Colonial Period  \n3. The Road to Independence  \n4. The Formation of a National Government  \n5. Westward Expansion and Regional Differences  \n6. Sectional Conflict  \n7. The Civil War and Reconstruction  \n8. Growth and Transformation  \n9. Discontent and Reform  \n10. War, Prosperity, and Depression  \n11. The New Deal and World War II  \n12. Postwar America  \n13. Decades of Change: 1960-1980  \n14. The New Conservatism and a New World Order  \n15. Bridge to the 21st Century  \nThis series is © 2011 Student Handouts. For any questions, please visit our website:  \n[www.studenthandouts.com](www.studenthandouts.com).  \nTHE NEW CONSERVATISM ANDA NEW WORLD ORDER:  \nUnited States History Workbook \\#14  \nTable of Contents:  \n1. A Society in Transition  \n2. Conservatism and the Rise of Ronald Reagan  \n3. The Economy in the 1980s  \n4. Foreign Affairs  \n5. U.S.-Soviet Relations  \n6. The Presidency of George H.W. Bush  \n7. Budgets and Deficits  \n8. End to the Cold War  \n9. The Gulf War  \n10. Panama and NAFTA  \n11. Third-party and Independent Candidates  \nUnited States History Workbook Series-Answer Keys  \n[http://www.studenthandouts.com/01-Web-Pages/United-States](http://www.studenthandouts.com/01-Web-Pages/United-States)History-Workbooks-Answer-Keys/00-Answer-Keys. htm  \nPage 2  \nStudent Handouts (Order \\#3780974)  \nThe New Conservatism and a New World Order – United States History Workbook \\#14 of 15  \n1. A Society in Transition  \nShifts in the structure of American society, begun years or even decades earlier, had become apparent by the time the 1980s arrived. The composition of the population and the most important jobs and skills in American society had undergone major changes.  \nThe dominance of service jobs in the economy became undeniable. By the mid- 1980s, nearly three-fourths of all employees worked in the service sector, for instance, as retail clerks, office workers, teachers, physicians, and government employees.  \nService-sector activity benefited from the availability and increased use of the computer. The information age arrived, with hardware and software that could aggregate previously unimagined amounts of data about economic and social trends. The federal government had made significant investments in computer technology in the 1950s and 1960s for its military and space programs.  \nIn 1976, two young California entrepreneurs, working out of a garage, assembled the first widely marketed computer for home use, named it the Apple, and ignited a revolution. By the early 1980s, millions of microcomputers had found their way into U.S. businesses and homes, and in 1982, Time magazine dubbed the computer its \"Machine of the Year.\"  \nMeanwhile, America's \"smokestack industries\" were in decline. The U. S. automobile industry reeled under competition from highly efficient Japanese carmakers. By 1980 Japanese companies already manufactured a fifth of the vehicles sold in the United States. American manufacturers struggled with some success to match the cost efficiencies and engineering standards of their Japanese rivals, but their former dominance of the domestic car market was gone forever. The giant old-line steel companies shrank to relative insignificance as foreign steel makers adopted new technologies more readily.  \nConsumers were the beneficiaries of this ferocious competition in the manufacturing industries, but the painful struggle to cut costs meant the permanent loss of hundreds of thousands of blue-collar jobs. Those who could made the switch to the service sector; others became unfortunate statistics.  \nPopulation patterns shifted as well. 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