SOC263H5 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 pt 1
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Lecture 8 - abandoned spaces: poverty and place pt 1. 1891 - industrial revolution o o primary sector 49% -- agriculture; mining; resource extractions. Secondary sector 20% -- manufacturing; doing something w the stuff you"ve taken out o. Service sector 31% -- tertiary -- something w the products made in the secondary sector -- not tangible jobs o. - emerging industries created jobs -- urban areas. Primary sector (agricultural and natural resources) 1. 8% and 2. 1% (krahn, et al. - in the contemporary moment, were have service sector jobs available a lot more and manufacturing jobs are diminishing. Slide 4 variations the larger the geographic space, the more likely there will be significant internal. Measuring regional inequality: economic measures (income and unemployment) Staples approach: regional differences emerge based on differences in regional endowments of natural resources (corrigall-brown and wien, 325-327). - she speaks to the type of regional inequalities that emerge.
