GEO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Huffy, Tertiary Sector Of The Economy, Maytag
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Primary sector agriculture, mining, fishing, forestry. Secondary sector manufacturers that process, transform and assemble raw materials, and also fabricate them to produce consumer goods, construction. Tertiary sector provision of goods and services to people in exchange for payment. Results in : usa lost 20% of industrial jobs during the last 6 years, huffy lost . 2 million in celina and million in farmington, earned million during a first year of production overseas. Industry: refers to manufacturing of goods in a factory, different from agriculture in terms of its distribution, clustered in space, markets and resources are important factors of industrial location. Origin: northern england and southern scotland in second half of 18th century. Industrial revolution refers to improvements made in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods: The major manufacturing centers in western europe extend in a north-south band from. The industrial revolution originated in areas of northern england and southern scotland.