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    The Tertiary

    Sector:
    OVERVIEW

    (4.1)

    By Alexander Murray Bowden


    Important activities in the sector
    The tertiary sector or service industry produces
    only immaterial goods, or services, brings
    together all the activities involved in delivering
    services intended to meet people’s needs or those
    of other manufacturing sectors. The most
    important activities are those of transport,
    communications, trade, tourism, health care and
    education.
    These are immaterial activities, that is, they do
    not produce material goods. They involve a low
    level of mechanization and are very diverse, both
    in terms of their variety and the professional
    qualifications required to deliver them.
    How are services classified?
    1. According to who delivers them (public vs. private = provided for by the state
    or delivered by private companies)
    2. According to their function (commercial or related to transport, leisure and
    tourism, information, administrative, financial, cultural, social services,
    personal services etc.)
    3. According to their degree of specialization (low-skilled such as street traders,
    skilled services such as education or highly-skilled services, also known as
    the quaternary sector, which requires an advanced level of professional
    training for areas such scientific research

    What are the different requirements for a university history teacher vs. a shop
    assistant OR a nurse vs. a factory worker?
    What are the four types of specialisation? Give
    an example of each.
    ➔ “Low-skilled workers”
    ◆ e.g. street traders, cleaners, farm labourers etc.
    ➔ Skilled workers e.g. as teachers, nurses, police,
    technicians etc.
    ➔ Highly-skilled workers, also known as the quaternary
    sector, which requires an advanced level of
    professional training for areas such scientific research
    e.g. scientists, engineers etc.
    Low-skilled workers? Re-thinking the
    language of work
    ★ Workers in this category make up a large proportion of our economy and
    include the millions of workers we rely on to keep us fed, housed, and healthy
    ★ Other words could be essential workers, frontline workers, key workers etc.
    How are services in developed countries
    different to developing countries?
    The tertiary sector becomes more important as a society becomes more advanced.

    In developed countries all types of services are widespread and the majority of
    people have access to those considered as basic services such as health care and
    education. Furthermore, services contribute to over 60% of employment figures and
    GDP which obviously increases an overall increase in living standards, the welfare
    state is more widespread and competition between services is high which in turn
    leads them to offer a wider range of services and more competitive prices, hence
    more people have more services and a higher quality of life
    In the developing world there are insufficient services and the majority of the
    population does not have access to basic services. Services here contribute much
    less to employment figures and the GDP contribution is low due to the predominance
    of low-skilled services (street vendors, maids) or those requiring little professional
    training.
    How are services in developed countries (as
    opposed to in underdeveloped countries)?
    Let’s have a look
    at the
    TRANSPORT
    SECTOR

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