SOSC 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tertiary Sector Of The Economy, Blue-Collar Worker, Secondary Sector Of The Economy
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Primary sector resource extraction (agriculture, mining etc) Secondary sector producing goods from the raw materials (manufacturing, construction etc) Tertiary sector or service sector finance, retail, health, government, education, cleaning, restaurants, and hotels, advertising, media etc. Private sector: insurance, real estate, finance, corporate management, retail, entertainment, food services. Public sector: health care, education, social assistance, public administration. Different ways of categorizing workers: by industry sector, by occupation, by class (as defined by their relationship to the means of production or by their status) Blue collar workers mostly in primary and secondary industries dirty jobs. White collar workers mostly in service sector. Pink collar workers in lower tier service sector, where many women work (retail, fast food, cleaning) Arlie hochschild coined the term to describe how emotions at work become commodified as wage labour. Emotional labour entails dealing with customers emotions and having to manage their emotions as part of the job (call centre, flight attendant, teachers, waiters)