GOOD.is
GOOD is a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward. Get involved.
  • Home
  • |
  • Columns ▶
    • BoingBoing on GOOD
    • Joe Ippolito on Business
    • Carol Coletta on Cities
    • Alissa Walker on Design
    • Ben Jervey on the Environment
    • Peter Smith on Food
    • Truman National Security Project on Foreign Policy
    • Picture Show
    • Mark Peters on Language
    • Anne Trubek on Literature
    • See All Columns
  • |
  • Video
  • |
  • Infographics
  • |
  • Community
  • |
  • Events
  • Follow GOOD:
  • twitter
  • flickr
  • facebook
  • youtube
  • rss feed
  • Business
  • |
  • Cities
  • |
  • Culture
  • |
  • Design
  • |
  • Education
  • |
  • Environment
  • |
  • Food
  • |
  • Health
  • |
  • Media
  • |
  • People
  • |
  • Politics
  • |
  • Technology
  • |
  • Transportation
  • 1

How We Worked: Visualizing U.S. Jobs from 1850 to Today

  • Posted by: Patrick James
  • on September 16, 2009 at 12:01 pm

This gorgeous (and interactive!) chart offers a variety of visual chronologies of the changing American job landscape from 1850 to present day. Looking at this time frame gives you a bold, colorful picture of how U.S. occupations changed during the meat (and the end) of the industrial revolution. The reductive takeaway: fewer farmers.

Via Treehugger.

  • Filed under: Blog : GOOD Blog
  • Share
  • Discuss
  • Mark it good!
  • Facebook
  •   Twitter
  • Digg
  • Stumble
  • del.icio.us
  • Reddit
Direct link to this post:
Send as an Email:
Your email address:
Recipient's email address:
Message:

X
Login or Sign up to discuss this article

Related Content

  • Blog : GOOD Blog

    Why American Health Care Costs so Much

    Ezra Klein sat down with an insurance industry CEO ...
    Read & Discuss

  • Magazine : Transparency

    Transparency: Which Countries Eat the Most Meat

    An increase in the consumption of meat is directly correlated to an increase in a country’s economic ...
    Read & Discuss

  • Magazine : The GOOD 100

    The GOOD 100: Cowpooling

    Share Your Meat with All Your Friends Because buying in bulk is ...
    Read & Discuss

  • Blog : GOOD Blog

    Red Meat Is Bad for the Environment: The Chart

    The Oil Drum has an excellent post on Ecological Economics and the Food System. It's packed with interesting ...
    Read & Discuss

  • Blog : GOOD Blog

    A Contrarian Take on Meat and Climate Change

    In Grist today, Farmer Eliot Coleman argues against the conventional wisdom that eating meat itself is ...
    Read & Discuss

Recent Readers

  • Price
  • Tina Cheung
  • atleyzgoodmagazi
  • zachfrechette
  • Diego Miguel
  • Panopticon
  • Jeff Lippiatt
  • maggiemay
  • Pierre-Yves Sanchis
  • Will Etling
  • dejesusjessica
  • patrickjames
See all

This Week In Blogs

  • Most Discussed
  • Most GOODMarked
  1. Is Newsweek’s Sarah Palin Cover Sexist?
  2. Transparency: The Effects of Bike Commuting on Obesity
  3. Prison and College: California’s Ridiculous Priorities
  4. Are You Raising a Furkid?
  5. The GOOD 100: Cowpooling
  6. Sad or Cute: Hermit Crab Makes Home in Broken Bottle
  7. Tips on How to Reduce Food Packaging Waste
  8. New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education
  9. Singularity 101: What Is the Singularity?
  10. Charging Forward with Mission Motor’s Electric Superbike
  1. New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education
  2. The Charter for Compassion
  3. The GOOD Guide to COP15: The Fire this Time: Copenhagen and the War for the Future
  4. Tips on How to Reduce Food Packaging Waste
  5. Singularity 101: What Is the Singularity?
  6. Picture Show: Breach
  7. Prison and College: California’s Ridiculous Priorities
  8. Charging Forward with Mission Motor’s Electric Superbike
  9. Intermission: Eye-popping 3D Building Projections
  10. The Changing Music Business: The Chart

GOOD Magazine
About
|
Join
|
Sign In

Categories

  • Business
  • Cities
  • Culture
  • Design
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Food
  • Health
  • Media
  • People
  • Politics
  • Technology
  • Transportation

Special Features

  • Blogs
  • Events
  • Infographics
  • Look
  • Picture Show
  • Q&A
  • Video

Community

  • Community Board
  • Member directory
  • Join the Community

Social

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Flickr

Magazine

  • Current issue
  • Back issues
  • Subscribe
  • Gift a gift
  • Renew/Service

GOOD

  • What is GOOD?
  • Make GOOD better
© GOOD Worldwide LLC. - all rights reserved
  • Company details
  • Contact
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • RSS
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Powered by Verkata