primary, secondary and tertiary

Primary production: this involves acquiring raw materials. For example, metals and coal have to be mined, oil drilled from the ground, rubber tapped from trees, foodstuffs farmed and fish trawled. This is sometimes known as extractive production.

Secondary production: this is the manufacturing and assembly process. It involves converting raw materials into components, for example, making plastics from oil. It also involves assembling the product, eg building houses, bridges and roads.

Tertiary production: this refers to the commercial services that support the production and distribution process, eg insurance, transport, advertising, warehousing and other services such as teaching and health care.

The quaternary sector of the economy consists of intellectual activities. Activities associated with this sector include government, culture, libraries, scientific research, education, and information technology.

In the UK most of our jobs are in the tertiary sector. This has not always been the case, with most jobs traditionally found in the primary and secondary sectors. Lots of these jobs have since moved abroad and subsequently there has been a rise in tertiary and some quaternary jobs.

 

 

Based on the U.K, can change for different countries due to them bypassing some parts of the model.For example India has now got lots of call centres due to the amount of english speakers.

Employment changes when a company undergoes economic development over a period of time. As the Clark Fisher model shows, job types change as a country changes in its wealth and population. Jobs are divided into 4 groups as seen above. The jobs in these are such things as farmers for primary, garment maker for secondary, teacher for tertiary and quaternary could be a chemical engineer.

The position the company is in depends on this as when a company grows it will have lots of farmers and workers for example. This is a high amount of primary and secondary employees in a company. When the country grows larger less people are working on farms but more people are working in tertiary and secondary groups due to the education needed for these people. The Fischer model shows this and although based on the U.K it is a good guide for other countries to look at. It gives an idea on where jobs will be for the future and then lets them change the structure for this and be better prepared for the future. These pople working in secondary groups may have had dads or mums working on farms and it is changing the structure of the family tree. The children may grow to do the same thing and it can change the families attitudes also. Their identities change because of the job they have and the money it may bring. Typically the higher you are on the graph (tertiary, quatitary) the more you will be paid prepaired to the primary workers.