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Where did Services originate?

Where did Services originate? . Chapter 12.1 . Three Types of Services . Consumer services (44% of all jobs in USA) Retail and Wholesale (15%) Education (10%) Health (12%) Leisure and Hospitality (10%) Business services (24% of all jobs in USA) Financial (6%)

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Where did Services originate?

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  1. Where did Services originate? Chapter 12.1

  2. Three Types of Services • Consumer services (44% of all jobs in USA) • Retail and Wholesale (15%) • Education (10%) • Health (12%) • Leisure and Hospitality (10%) • Business services (24% of all jobs in USA) • Financial (6%) • FIRE: Finance, Insurance, Real Estate • Professional (12%) • ½ are in technical services: Law, management, accounting, architecture, engineering, design, consulting • ½ are in support services: clerical, secretarial, custodial • Public services (17%) • Provide protection and security for citizens and businesses

  3. Early Rural Settlements: Consumer Services • Early permanent settlements established to offer consumer services • Places to bury the dead • Permanent resting place for the dead permanent priests to perform the service encourage building of structures • Settlement and gender roles • Household based services evolved into schools, libraries, theaters, museums • Settlements= manufacturing centers: tools, clothing, shelter, containers, fuel • Trading occurred once people became skilled in an area

  4. Early Rural Settlements: Public Services • Followed religious activities • Soldiers stationed in the settlement to attack invaders • Centers for military powers

  5. Early Rural Settlements: Business Services • Trade because not every group had access to the same resources. • Settlements= trade centers and warehouses to store extra food • Types of service jobs: regulating the terms of transaction, setting fair prices, keeping records, creating a currency system.

  6. Services in Early Urban Settlements: Ancient Cities • Earliest: • Ur in Mesopotamia (present day Iraq) • TitrisHoyuk (present day Turkey) • Urban settlements- houses built around a central courtyard; palaces, temples and other buildings in the center; multiple cooking areas suggested extended families lived together. • Ancient Athens • City-states: independent self-governing communities that included the settlement and surrounding countryside. • Ancient Rome • Settlements were centers of administration, military, retail services, trade

  7. Services in Early Urban Settlements: Services in Medieval Cities • Feudalism revived urban settlements in Europe in the 11th century • Lords gave residents rights to establish cities in exchange for military service • Urban dwellers expanded trade in the cities • Trade between different settlements enhanced roads and rivers • Densely built • Worlds largest cities were in Asia, not Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Industrial Revolution

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