Insight Geography: Work, Employment and Development: Tchrs'.Resources
Collins Educational (Publisher)
Published on 2. August 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-00-326618-4 (ISBN)
Description
The teacher resource books include an overview of the course, together with detailed unit-by-unit commentary and guidance in using the practice assessment items. The geographical content, key ideas, skills, values and cross-curricular themes are clearly set out for each unit. Each book contains reduced facsimilies of all the relevant copymasters to facilitate evaluation and lesson planning. "Work, Employment and Development" covers all the main themes of economic geography and development in a wide variety of contexts from an individual company to global economic systems. This book deals with the differences between work and employment, patterns of growth and decline in jobs, various approaches to regional development and whether or not there are alternative ways of organizing economies. All of the afore mentioned are examined within the context of their effects on the quality of people's lives.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 298 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-326618-4 (9780003266184)
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Content
What is work?; where the jobs are growing; recreation, tourism and jobs; where the power lies; work, decisions and employment - manufacturing; work, decisions and employment - farming; is it where you live that counts?; a capitalist economy - Japan; a planned economy - the USSR; a mixed economy - Sierra Leone; change, progress and development; against all odds - The Gambia; South Korea - a success story?; revolutionary development - Nicaragua; whose economy is it?