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?
Women % of total
Men % of total
Like the job very much 40 30
Quite like the job 27 35
Do not really like the job 20 25
Hate the job 13 10

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 quarternary 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 Evolving Planet) and work through Activity 1 – questions 1 – 4.

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