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28 Cards in this Set
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cottage industry
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home based manufacturing system
-ex: textile manufacturing |
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James Watt
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invented the steam engine
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textiles
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woven fabric
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diffusion of iron industry (to other industries)
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iron => coal => engineering => transportation
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diffusion of textile industry (to other industries)
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textiles => chemical => food processing
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diffusion from the UK
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UK => Europe (belgian, french, german) => USA
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4 regions of cnecentrated industry
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-North America
-Western Europe -Eastern Europe -East Asia |
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6 North American Industrialized areas
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-New England
-Middle Atlantic -Mohawk Valley -Pitsburgh-Lake Erie -Western Great Lakes -St. Lawrence Valley-Ontario Penninsula |
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right-to-work states
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states with laws passsed preventing a union and company from negotiating a contract that requires workers to join a union as a job condition
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4 European Industrialized Areas
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-Rhine-Ruhr Valley
-Mid-Rhine -United Kingdom -Northern Italy |
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6 Eastern Europe Industrialized areas
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-Central Industrial
-St. Petersburg -Eastern Ukraine -Volga Industrial -Urals Industrial -Kuznetsk Industrial -Silesia |
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4 Asian Industrialized areas
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-Japan
-China -South Korea -Singapore -Taiwan -Hong Kong *The last 4 are often referred to as the 4 Asian Tigers of industry* |
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Situation factors
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involve transportating materials to and from a factory
-seeks a location that minimizes the cost of transporting to and from the factory -location near inputs -location near markets -mode of transportation |
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Site factors
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result form the unique characteristics of a location
-land -labor -capital |
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bulk-reducing industry
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when the finished product weighs less than the material it's made from
-results in having the manufacturing plant closer to the material than the market |
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bulk-gaining industry
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industry when the material weighs less than the finished product (it gains weight or volume during production)
-results in the manufacturing plant to be closer to the market than the material |
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break-of-bulk point
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location where transfer among transportation modes is possible
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labor-intensive industry
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industry where the labor cost is a high % of the expense
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textile production
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-spinning fibers for yarn
-weaving or knitting yarn into fabric (and then finishing by dyeing or bleaching) -butting and sweing fabric into clothing or other products (i.e. carpets, towels, etc.) |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
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fire in which 146 women died because the floor where the fire started was locked (to prevent stealing and taking breaks)
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Fordist
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form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly
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Post-Fordist
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Adoption of more flexible work rules
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footloose
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industries that can locate in a wide variety of places without a significant change in their cost of transportation, land, labor, and capital
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trading blocs
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a group of neighboring countries that promote trade with each other and erect barriers to limit trade with other blocks
-Western Hemisphere (NAFTA) -WEstern Europe (EU) -East Asia |
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transnational corporation
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multinational corporations
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Old problems for LDCs
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-inadequate infrastructure
-distance from markets |
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New problems for LDCs
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-raw material access
-site factors |
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new international division of labor
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selective transfer of some types of jobs, especially those requiring low-paid less skilled workers from MDCs to LDCs
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