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| 9650353981 | 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 | |
| 9650353982 | Break of Bulk point | A location where goods are transferred from one mode of transportation to another. | 1 | |
| 9650353983 | Bulk reducing industries | An industry in which the final product weighs less or comprises a lower volume than the inputs. | 2 | |
| 9650353984 | 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 | |
| 9650353985 | Cottage Industry | Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution. | 4 | |
| 9650353989 | 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 | 5 | |
| 9650353991 | Friction of distance | The increase in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance | 6 | |
| 9650353992 | Footloose industry | These industries often have spatially fixed costs, which means that the costs of the products do not change despite where the product is assembled. | 7 | |
| 9650353993 | Industrial Revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. | 8 | |
| 9650353994 | Fordist production | An efficient manner of production, pioneered by Henry Ford, in which all employees, regardless of status, were treated equally, employees performed menial, repetitive jobs for higher wages, and products were highly homogenized. | 9 | |
| 9650353995 | Labor Intensive Industry | An industry for which labor costs comprise a high percentage of total expenses. | 10 | |
| 9650353997 | 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. | 11 | |
| 9650353998 | Outsorcing | removes work from one company and sends it to another company- so the work can be completed at a lower cost | 12 | |
| 9650353999 | Post Fordist production | production processes in which components of goods are made in different places around the globe and then brought together as needed to assemble the final product, flexible production | 13 | |
| 9650354001 | Post industrial societies | a society based on information, services and high technology, rather than raw materials and manufacturing | 14 | |
| 9650354002 | Newly industrializing country | countries in the transition stage between developing and developed countries, typically have rapidly growing economies. | 15 | |
| 9650354012 | 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 transportation. | 16 | |
| 9650444062 | containerization | a new efficient way to ship goods, lowered transportation costs | 17 | |
| 9650462979 | economies of scale | generating a greater profit by producing larger quantities of goods in high demand, which in return decreased the average cost of producing the good. | 18 | |
| 9650475921 | location criteria | sites needed to be close to resources and connected by ports by water | 19 | |
| 9650486573 | hinterland | an area from which goods can be produced, delivered to the port, and then exported. ie: Rotterdam is the port and the area around the Rhine would be the... | 20 | |
| 9650499748 | secondary hearths | NE US, Russia, Ukraine,and East Asia | 21 | |
| 9650512725 | vertical integration | common during Fordist period, owning many steps of the production process | 22 | |
| 9650526582 | distance decay | suggests that manufacturing plants should be more concerned with serving the markets of nearby places than more distant places | 23 | |
| 9650550471 | flexible production | firms can pick and choose among a multitude of suppliers and production strategies all over the world | 24 | |
| 9650563338 | Just in time delivery | rather than keeping a large inventory of components or products, companies keep just what they need for short-term production and new parts will ship quickly when needed | 25 | |
| 9650577705 | intermodal connections | places where two or more modes of transportation meet, in order to ease the flow of goods and reduce costs | 26 | |
| 9650600150 | Rust Belt | a deindustrialized region, causes high unemployment, Great Lakes region | 27 | |
| 9650613068 | Sun Belt | fastest growing region in US in terms of service industries and population | 28 | |
| 9650621454 | technopole | an area planned for high technology, usually near universities, silicon valley, Boston corridor by MIT | 29 |
