SOCIOL 2R03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Brian Mulroney, Sunday School, Lyndon B. Johnson
12 Sep 2016
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Shifts in work: deindustrialization and the post-industrial phase. The coming of post-industrial society (daniel bell, 1973) The rise of the creative class (richard florida 2002) Service sector 76. 5% (tertiary-service: exchange of a commodity not in a tangible form, finance retail education etc) Brunette al- they point to canadian regional inequality emerging from the disparities from bc to east coast. The larger the geographic space, the more likely there will be significant internal variations. (regional inequality- measured in terms of economic terms. Levels on income and unemployment rates across provinces. But in her work she is just looking at income and unemployment. Staples approach: regional differences emerge based on differences in regional endowments of natural resources (corrigall-brown and wien, 325-327). Critics: staples approach not important anymore- but alberta, nfl, labrador- it stills holds a measure of strength but for the most part there"s a shift away from the importance of the resources to the knowledge demanding work.
