CANADA: JOB DISTRIBUTION

By Samatha Oliver

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age Job Distribution

Agricultural Age Jobs:
In agricultural communities producing food and handmade arts and crafts; peasants, serfs, and artisans.
Industrial Age Jobs:
In factories in cities producing mass-produced manufactured goods; more blue collar jobs.
Information Age Jobs:
In higher paying, skilled technology and professional jobs and lower paying, unskilled service sector jobs, creating danger of a tiered economy and decreased middle class ( the traditional counterstone of a democracy); more white collar jobs; also multiple jobs/careers in a lifetime.

Information/Data on Canadian Job Distribution

In Canada's workforce(14.8million, 1994): Trade 18%, Manufacturing 15%, Transportation and communications 8%, Finance 7%, Public administration 7%, Construction 6%, Agriculture 4% Forestry and mining 2%, and other services 33%.

Conclusions on Canada (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Its Job Distribution)

Canada is in the industrial age.

Additional Online Sources on Canada's Job Distribution

Canadian Computing Careers
Canada's job

Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Canada's Job Distribution

Background notes on CANADA (no author).
World Almanac 1996 (no author).
Country proviles (no author).

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