service industries

Describes approximately thirty service sector careers, covering duties, work environment, salary, outlook, perks and pitfalls, and required education, experience, and personality traits, and includes an interview in each profile.

Provides an overview of careers in service businesses, such as the police, firefighters, and postal workers with interviews by professionals on the job, discussing their duties, education, and giving advice.

This book introduces how individuals and businesses purchase products and labor to fulfill their needs and wants.

Explores the role throughout history of helping professions, including drivers, exterminators, firefighters, social workers, and others.

Provides an overview of various careers available in the travel and hospitality field, with information on the nature of each job, a history of the profession, responsibilities, education and training, potential salary, work environment, and future outlook.

Simple text helps children understand the differences between consumers and producers and the unique role each plays in the community.

Provides an introduction to goods and services, defines needs and wants, and explains how resources are used.

Provides information about distributing goods and services using middlemen, channels, modes of transportation, and the internet.

Simple text helps children learn the differences between goods and services, the role each plays in their daily life, and the people who provide them in the community.