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| 6393472740 | Agglomeration | A process involving the clustering or concentrating of people or activities. The term often refers to manufacturing plants and businesses that benefit from close proximity because they share skilled-labor pools and technological and financial amenities. | 0 | |
| 6393472741 | Break of Bulk point | A location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another. | 1 | |
| 6393472742 | Bulk reducing industries | An industry in which the final product weighs less or comprises a lower volume than the inputs. | 2 | |
| 6393472743 | Bulk gaining industries | Industries whose products weigh more after assembly than they did previously in their constituent parts. Such industries tend to have production facilities close to their markets. | 3 | |
| 6393472744 | Cottage Industry | Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution. | 4 | |
| 6393472745 | Compressed modernity | rapid economic and political change that transformed the country into a stable nation with democatizing political institution, a growing economy, and an expanding web of nongovernmental institutions | 5 | |
| 6393472746 | Conglomerate corporations | a firm that is comprised of many smaller firms that serve several different functions | 6 | |
| 6393472747 | Deglomeration | The process of industrial deconcentration in response to technological advances and/or increasing costs due to congestion and competition. | 7 | |
| 6393472748 | Deindustrialization | process by which companies move industrial jobs to other regions with cheaper labor, leaving the newly deindustrialized region to switch to a service economy and to work through a period of high unemployment | 8 | |
| 6393472749 | Distance decay | The declining intensity of any activity, process, or function with increasing distance from its point of origin | 9 | |
| 6393472750 | Friction of distance | The increase in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance | 10 | |
| 6393472751 | Footloose industry | company with no allegiance or ties to a country or location that can move its primary location | 11 | |
| 6393472752 | Industrial Revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. | 12 | |
| 6393472753 | Fordist production | form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly | 13 | |
| 6393472754 | Labor Intensive Industry | An industry for which labor costs comprise a high percentage of total expenses. | 14 | |
| 6393472755 | Maquiladora | Factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico. | 15 | |
| 6393472756 | New international division of labor | Transfer of some types of jobs, especially those requiring low-paid less skilled workers, from more developed to less developed countries. | 16 | |
| 6393472757 | Outsourcing | removes work from one company and sends it to another company- so the work can be completed at a lower cost | 17 | |
| 6393472758 | Post Fordist production | Adoption by companies of flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that perform a variety of tasks. | 18 | |
| 6393472759 | Right-to-work-state | A U.S. state that has passed a law preventing a union and company from negotiating a contract that requires workers to join a union as a condition of employment. | 19 | |
| 6393472760 | Post industrial societies | a society based on information, services and high technology, rather than raw materials and manufacturing | 20 | |
| 6393472761 | Newly industrializing country | countries in the transition stage between developing and developed countries. Newly industrializing countries typically have rapidly growing economies. | 21 | |
| 6393472762 | Single market manufacturers | located near the market--save money on transportation. Make products sold primary in one location | 22 | |
| 6393472763 | Site factors | Location factors related to the costs of factors of production inside the plant, such as land, labor, and capital. | 23 | |
| 6393472764 | Space-time compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems | 24 | |
| 6393472765 | Special Economic Zones | In 1979, the Chinese government set up these zones on the coast near Macao, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Improved transportation, lower taxes, and other incentives attracted investments from foreign businesses. They helped stimulate innovation and helped China grow economically. | 25 | |
| 6393472766 | Sustainable development | Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. | 26 | |
| 6393472767 | Trading blocks | a group of countries that join together in some form of agreement in order to increase trade between them and/or to gain economic benefits from cooperation on some level. | 27 | |
| 6393472768 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement, a trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries. | 28 | |
| 6393472769 | Watt, James | (1736-1819) Improved upon Newcomen's steam engine. Watt's steam engine would be the power source of the Industrial Revolution. | 29 | |
| 6393472770 | Weber, Alfred | German geographer who was a major theorists of industrial location. He devised a model of how to understand industrial locations in regard to several factors, including labor supply, markets, resource location, and transpiration. | 30 |
