Socio Paper

Socio Paper

SOCI 3600

SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND INDUSTRY

Second Assignment

Shahalam Khatri

Course Director: Norene Pupo

The Canadian economy has evolved over time and has made a dramatic shift from the past where Canada had a manufacturing intensive economy to a service oriented one. Even in our everyday student lives we are passively and unknowingly playing some role or the other for some form of service which a third party vendor is providing, from us enrolling in courses, sitting in lectures, to us socializing at the second cup in York lanes. Canadian service vendors account for a majority of Canadian exports. Canadian service industry has a large variety of products, which include products like: banking, insurance, engineering, architecture, legal consulting, accounting, tourism, transportation, IT, communications, health care, personnel placement (HR), restaurants, personal services, and education. Since the service sector covers majority of the working population, it has become a characteristic of the population as the portion that works in the service sector is getting trained and educated along those lines. This is gradually going to have an effect on the social structure of Canada, and it will also have an effect on the future of Canada's economy. If the employment is going to be in the service sector, then obviously investment and productivity will be most likely highest in those sectors too. This is beneficial for the economy, but it can lead to neglecting other sectors of the economy.
Schools and universities are full of individuals well equipped to work in a service oriented job. Most of us are developing those particular skills that compliment a service sector industry. According to the World Bank Group’s World Development Indicators, in 1980, the output generated by the Canadian services industry had jumped from 58% to 65% in 2001 and that is a large chunk of Canada's GDP. Now nobody cares if you have experience working in mines, and factories....