GEOG 2200 Lecture 4: Week 4 Lecture 1 GEOG 2200 2013 Notes.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 2200
• Professor: John Milton

Document Summary

Week 4 lecture 1: going global: servicing the world. The growth of the service sector has been an important theme of economic change since the 1960s. Originally, services were seen as part of the tertiary sector, dependent upon either the local primary (agriculture, forestry, fishing) or local secondary (manufacturing, mining, construction) sectors. Today, this linkage to local dynamics has been erased. Services now dominate the employment structures of most developed economies/countries. This is, in part, due to the processes of deindustrialization that has occurred with the international division of labour that we keep returning to. It is also due, in part, to the changing lifestyles of people. The growing importance of services, particularly in the advanced or developed economies of the global north, reflects a shift to what scholars term the post- industrial" society. In explaining the emergence of the service economy, bell makes three key claims.