GEOGRAPHY The changing economy of the UK
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- Created on: 12-04-15 15:52
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- The changing economy of the UK
- Employment sectors
- Primary- getting raw materials from the ground
- Secondary- making a product from raw materials
- Tertiary- providing a service
- increased because UK has more disposable income now so there is more need for services
- quaternary- intellectual services such as research
- Has increased as education has improved, more highly skilled labour
- 1970 -now primary and secondary has decreased
- Deiindustrialisation
- outsourcing to developing countries- cost down
- no investment in technology- not competitive
- machinery increase = less people needed
- Deiindustrialisation
- Sunderland ship building
- we didn't modernise
- unemployed- poverty rise
- New industries
- Car making
- Produced by UK owned by foreign investors
- Govt incentives for foreign investors
- Machinery rise = people drop, skilled labour with good infrastructure
- Just in time production
- Produced by UK owned by foreign investors
- Classifying employment
- Zero hours contract
- temp/ permenant
- temp increase
- full/part time
- more part time now
- average income
- managerial/skilled/semi-skilled/unskilled
- regional differences, north east Vs south east
- North east
- once heavily industrialised, now high unemploymen
- good infrastructure means N-S transport is easy
- Pockets of wealth in N.E eg. York
- Dinnington
- low pay tertiary, unskilled and part time
- south east
- High paid tertiary and quaternary (knowledge economy)
- Low unemployment
- Canary Wharfe
- High paid knowledge economy, high skilled degree level
- Good transport means commuters
- North east
- Glasgow
- de-industrialised (little Manufacture now)
- Benefits: C02 and water use decrease, noise pollution and traffic decrease
- drawbacks: derelict and unsightly, unemployment increase, outsourcing goods means C02 increase from transport
- Varied economy now
- de-industrialised (little Manufacture now)
- Brownfield Vs greenfield development
- Brownfield- preciously developed land that can be built on now, sometimes derelict eg Longbridge birmingham
- Costs: expensive to clear land, locals priced out of the area
- Benefits: regeneration (improving an area), crime decreased, infrastructure already there, COST down. sustainable because its already developed.
- Greenfield- undeveloped land, sometimes GREENBELT (land around the city to stop city growth) eg Dudley west midlands
- Benefits: less to clear, so CHEAP, easy because less to clear
- Costs: infrastructure needed- COST, lost of green land, not susrtainable
- Brownfield- preciously developed land that can be built on now, sometimes derelict eg Longbridge birmingham
- Employment sectors
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