GEOG 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rust Belt, Sun Belt, Call Centre

• School: McGill University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 216
• Professor: Sebastien Breau

Document Summary

Availability of labour (skills, qualifications) ex. Moncton, new brunswick: call centre capital due to large volume of bilingual workers. Pull of the market (depends on type of product) Behavioural considerations objectives/constraints of decision makers. Institutional and cultural factors gov policies, regulations, subsidies, etc. Relative importance of factors depends on the type of activity involved. Industrial structure of economies: primary activities concerned directly with natural resources (mining, oil/gas extraction, etc. , secondary activities processing or transformation of raw materials into manufactured goods. Light manufacturing activities goods that are produced at the firm level and go directly to consumers (textiles etc. ) consumer oriented products. Heavy manufacturing activities intermediate goods that require further transformation, capital-intensive: tertiary activities sale and exchange of goods and services, quaternary activities handling and processing of information and knowledge. Growth in information-based sectors as time progresses; decline of tertiary, primary, secondary. Overall global distribution of industry is uneven, dominated by regions that industrialized early : n. america.