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Chapter 12

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Cottage industries   Production of goods in a home or small workshop, typically by hand or with low technology.  
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Economies of scale   Savings in cost of production that comes from increasing production of a good.  
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Industrial Revolution   Cluster of inventions and innovations that brought large-scale economic changes in agriculture, commerce and manufacturing in late eighteenth century Europe.  
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Hinterland   An area of economic production that is located inland and is connected to the world by a port.  
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Situation   The position of a city or place relative to its surrounding environment or context.  
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Network   A group or system interconnected people or things.  
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First Mover Advantage   benefit a service or product receives by being the first to market.  
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Secondary Hearths   Area to which an innovation diffuses and from which the innovation diffuses more broadly.  
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Globalization   Processes heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country borders.  
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Fordist   Manufacturing system in which raw materials are brought into a central location and component parts and the final product are produced at the same location and then shipped globally.  
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Vertical Integration   The merging of businesses that serve different steps in one commodity chain.  
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Location theory   Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption. The von ThΓΌnen model is an example.  
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Agglomeration   Cost advantages created when similar businesses cluster in the same location. For example, car manufacturers cluster in a city or region to tap into a skilled labor force and access infrastructure, services, and technology.  
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Least Cost Theory   Determining the location of manufacturing based on minimizing three critical expenses: labor, transportation, and agglomeration. Model developed by Alfred Weber.  
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Friction of distance   Difficulty in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance.  
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Intermodal   Where two or more modes of transportation meet (including air, road, rail barge, and ship).  
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Capitalism   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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Commodification   Transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded.  
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Global division of labor   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   Increasing connectedness between world cities from improved communication and transportation networks.  
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Just-in-time delivery   Production system in which parts are delivered as needed to the assembly line so that parts are not warehoused, stored, or overproduced.  
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Spatial fix   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   Connection point in a network, where goods and ideas flow in, out, and through the network.  
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Commodity chain   Steps in the production of a good from its design and raw materials to its production, marketing, and distribution.  
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Outsourcing   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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Connectivity   Position of a place or area relative to others in a network.  
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Global sourcing   Tapping into companies that specialize in production around the world to manufacture goods.  
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Global production networks   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)   States with growing industrial and service economies and an increasing presence in global trade.  
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Break of Bulk Point   A place where goods are transferred from one form of transport to another. For example, in a port, cargoes of ships are unloaded and put on trains, trucks, or riverboats for inland distribution.  
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Deindustrialization   Decline in industry in a region or economy. Happens when companies move industry to other regions or mechanize production.  
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Rust Belt   A region in the northeastern United States that once had an extensive manufacturing industry but has been deindustrialized during the post-Fordist era.  
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High-Technology Corridor   Areas along or near major transportation corridors that are devoted to the research, development, and sale of high-technology products.  
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