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
