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Chapter 12 Vocabular

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show Production of goods in a home or small workshop, typically by hand or with low technology.  
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economies of scale   show
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industrial revolution   show
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show An area of economic production that is located inland and is connected to the world by a port.  
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show The position of a city or place relative to its surrounding environment or context.  
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show A set of interconnected nodes without a center.  
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show Benefit a service or product receives by being the first to market.  
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secondary hearths   show
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globalization   show
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fordist   show
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vertical integration   show
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location theory   show
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agglomeration   show
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least cost theory   show
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friction of distance   show
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show Where two or more modes of transportation meet (including air, road, rail, barge, and ship).  
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show Economic system where people, corporations, and states produce goods and services and trade them on the world market with the goal of making a profit.  
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show Transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded.  
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show The ability of corporations to employ labor from around the world, made possible by the compression of time and space through innovations in communication and transportation systems.  
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time-space compression   show
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just-in-time delivery   show
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show The movement of production from one site to another based on the place-based cost advantages of the new site.  
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node   show
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commodity chain   show
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show Hiring employees outside the home country of a company in order to reduce the cost of labor inputs for the good or service.  
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show Position of a place or area relative to others in a network.  
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show Tapping into companies that specialize in production around the world to manufacture goods.  
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show Pattern of flows from raw material to global product to disposal or reuse of products that shows all the places connected through production.  
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newly industrializing countries (NIC)   show
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break of bulk point   show
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deindustrialization   show
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rust belt   show
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high-technology corridor   show
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