In the US & UK- it was mainly the conservative right that de-regulated and de-industrialized both countries to a staggering degree, leading to the creation of a lot of poverty and disfunction in society. The Unions were on the left.
The great irony now is that NATO is so de-industrialized that even the physical security is compromised.
The majority of service jobs come from the result of the bloated overdevelopment and overcompetition (I believe there is such a thing!) of industries- the physical/tangible 'wealth' of the society itself has not improved much at all (and even decrease) and the psychological-physical cost on human well-being and health can increase as it has in the US & Asia.
There is evidence of this everywhere in the US, from health care, education to finance etc.
Overcompetition passes the high costs down to the end-user- the consumer of the good or service. Consumers are also not "perfect economic actors'- they also can be "captured" much more easily than economic theories assume with aggressive propaganda/marketing and lock-in by powerful corporations/industries.
Basically my general point is that the way economics thinking and education was developed is from academics in the 20th century. Times have changed. These overarching theories did not in cooperate all the myriad contradictions and complexities of the real world. I also think that it is too obsessed with "quantification" and counting money- rather than an integrated qualitative/holistic AND quantative approach.