UNIT 4: ECONOMIC CONNECTIONS. Types of Industries The JOBS that people do can be divided into four categories: 1. Primary Industries 2. Secondary Industries.

UNIT 4:ECONOMIC CONNECTIONS

Types of Industries

The JOBS that people do can be divided into four categories:

1. Primary Industries2. Secondary Industries3. Tertiary (Service) Industries4. Quaternary Industries

Primary

Jobs that take raw materials from the natural environment

The extraction of natural resources

Farming, Fishing, Forestry, Mining, Energy

Secondary

Jobs that deal with the manufacturing of raw materials into a finished product

Forestry furniture, pulp, paper

Fishing cannery (tuna) Farming food manufacturer Minerals jewelry, energy sources

Tertiary - Service

Jobs that focus on providing services

Teachers, servers, doctors, lawyers, supermarket workers etc…

Majority of CANADIAN jobs are in this industry

Primary, Secondary or Tertiary? Raw Materials Manufacturing Mining Civil Service Research and Development Ski Resort Novelist Construction Farming

Quaternary Industry

Processing of ideas rather than products Examples include:

Computer programming (Steve Jobs) Accountants, University professors

Basic and Non Basic IndustriesBasic Industries

Industry that sells it’s products outside of the community, bringing new money into the community

Provide jobs for residents Provides the economic base for a

community

Car manufacturing, Canada’s Wonderland, ski resorts in Collingwood

Non Basic Industries Industry that sells its products within the community, it does not bring money into the community

Most jobs are non-basic

Small local grocery store

Basic or Non Basic?

1. Coal miner in Northern BC2. Hairdresser at a shopping mall3. Art Teacher4. Actor on Stratford5. Teller at local bank6. Vice-president of Scotiabank7. Professor at Queen’s University8. Receptionist at a dentist’s office9. Air Canada pilot10. School-bus driver

Problems in the Manufacturing Industry Manufacturing is an

underdeveloped industry in CAN

Why?

a) Resource Trading Nation CAN trades most of its natural

resources, it doesn’t manufacture products

Problems in the Manufacturing Industry

b) Secondary Manufacturing Suffering because the level of

foreign investment is decreasing

Companies finding that it is more efficient to carry out business from their home offices

Problems in the Manufacturing Industry

c) Canadian Market Fragmented

Rather than major corporations competing internationally, CAN has smaller companies competing nationally