Assumptions of a distinction between industrial and information societies are meaningless and misleading. The real problem is the impossibility of distinguishing an 'information sector' from the 'industrial' or 'non-information sector'. All of these are impossible without the input of information. Lumping together a variety of occupations does not create the homogeneity which one might think necessary for a phenomenon which is capable of revolutionising the whole of life. Attempts to separate the 'information sector' from the 'production sector' are even more absurd.
Information is a part of every production process, service and product.
The same irrationality applies to trying to distinguish information services from productive services. A telecoms worker, for example, is both productive in providing a vital service and is also integral to the handling of information. All these attempted separations and counterpositions are forced and end up mystifying the concept of information. Even the most menial and manual labour requires a level of awareness to perform, even if the jobs are repetitive and boring. The conventional counterposition of brain to brawn, of thinking to doing, is in this context misleadingly simplistic.