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The Clark Fisher model of changing employment

The Clark Fisher model of changing employment. KQ: How can you fit a country’s employment structure into the Clark fisher model?. Starter: Do you like your job?. Examine the table below: What are the main differences? What possible reasons could there be for these differences?.

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The Clark Fisher model of changing employment

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  1. The Clark Fisher model of changing employment KQ: How can you fit a country’s employment structure into the Clark fisher model?

  2. Starter: Do you like your job? Examine the table below: • What are the main differences? • What possible reasons could there be for these differences?

  3. The Clark Fisher model This is a simple model which shows how the stages in employment sectors change as a country’s economy grows. Task 1: Evolving Planet pg 183 – Take notes on the following stages of the Clark Fisher model. • Pre-Industrial Stage • Industrial Stage • Post-Industrial Stage **Growth of the quartenary sector

  4. The Clark Fisher model Task 2: Stick a copy of the Clark Fisher model in the centre of an A4 page – leaving enough space around the edges for annotating. • Look carefully at the relative importance of the sectors in the USA, China and Bangladesh (Figure 3 on page 184 Evolving Planet) and use labelled arrows to locate each of the at the correct place on your Clark Fisher diagram. • Add labels in boxes to your diagram to explain: • The reasons for the decline in the numbers employed in agriculture • Why the numbers employed in the secondary sector might rise and fall in some countries. • The reasons for the rapid increase in tertiary jobs that occurs as a country moves along the development pathway.

  5. Changes in employment from place to place • Study Figure 3 on page 184 Evolving Planet and work through Skills Builder 1 – questions a –c • Read through the 3 newspaper articles on Bangladesh, China and the USA (page 184-185 Evolving Planet and work through Activity 1 – questions 1 – 4.

  6. Finally... Do you think the Clark Fisher model will continue to fit for developing countries? Why / Why not? (Hint – thi nk about tourism as an industry)

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