Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Summary
The Industrial Revolution transformed the world economically, politically, and socially.
Many of the places where industrialization fi rst took hold have since become deindus-
trialized, both with the relocation of manufacturing plants and with the outsourcing
of steps of the production process domestically and offshore. With changing econom-
ics, places change. Some now look like ghost towns, serving merely as a reminder that
industrialization took place there. Others have booming economies and are thriving,
having kept industry or having successfully developed a service economy. Still other
places are redefi ning themselves. In the next chapter, we consider another lasting effect
of industrialization and deindustrialization: environmental change.
Geographic Concepts
Industrial Revolution
globalization
Fordist
vertical integration
friction of distance
least cost theory
agglomeration
fl exible production system
commodifi cation
product life cycle
global division of labor
just-in-time delivery
spatial fi x
outsourced
offshore
intermodal connections
deindustrialization
newly industrializing
countries
break-of-bulk point
Rust Belt
Sun Belt
growth pole
technopole
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