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| Bulk gaining industry | An industry in which the final product weighs more or comprises a greater volume than the inputs |
| Fordist | Form of mass production in the which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly |
| Labor Intensive Industry | An industry for which labor costs comprise a high percentage of total expenses |
| Maquiladora | Factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border, to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico |
| Post Fordist | Adoption by companies of flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that perform a variety of tasks |
| Right to work State | A US state that has passed a law preventing a union and company from negotiating a contract that requires workers to join a union as a condition of employment |
| Site Factors | Location factors related to the costs of factors of production inside the plant, such as land, labor and capital |
| Situation Factors | Location factors related to the transportation of materials into and from a factory |
| Textile | A fabric made by weaving used in making clothing |
| Trading bloc | A group of neighboring countries that promote trade with each other and erect barriers to limit trade with other blocs |
| Basic Industries | Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement |
| Business Services | Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses |
| Central Business District | (CBD) The area of the city where retail and activities are clustered |
| Central Place | A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
| Central Place Theory | A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther |
| City State | An independent state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland |
| Clustered Rural Settlement | A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement |
| Consumer Services | Business that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services |
| Break of Bulk point | A location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another |
| Dispersed Rural Settlement | A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages |
| Economic Base | A community's collection of basic industries |
| Enclosure Movement | The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century |
| Gravity Model | A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service |
| Market Area | (or hinterland) the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services |
| Nonbasic industries | Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community |
| Personal Services | Services that provide for the well being and personal improvement of individual consumers |
| Primate City | The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as many people as the second ranking settlement |
| Primate City Rule | A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement |
| Producer Services | Services that primarily help people conduct business |
| Public Services | Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
| Range (of a service) | The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
| Rank Size Rule | A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the populations of the largest settlement |
| Retail Services | Services that provide goods for sale to consumers |
| Service | Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it |
| Settlement | A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants |
| Threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support the service |
