GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Deindustrialization, Orphan Drug, Central Place Theory
24 Dec 2016
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The service sector: canada & the world: gdp & employment. Canada (like other mdw economies): economic transitions: primary to secondary (19th c, secondary to tertiary (20th c) Seco(cid:374)dary to tertiary: shift to a (cid:858)post-industrial(cid:859) society: uneven transition. Temporal and spatially uneven: re-shaped what people do every day. Shift to a post-industrial society: economic restructuring: manufacturing to service activities, production to consumption, but what does this shift actually look like, a: people are employed to provide services to others. Consider: the transition of the production and consumption of food (3 different time periods: primary/pre-industrial/subsistence society. People grow their own food, process/butcher it, and they are eating it: secondary/industrial society. Food production is more specialized, food is sold at a market, bought by large companies from famers, consumers buy it at a grocery store: consumers do not grow their food, tertiary/post-industrial/service society. Consumers go out for food (restaurants etc), consumers are served the food.
