Industrial district
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Industrial district is a place where workers and firms, specialised in a main industry and auxiliary industries, live and work. The concept was initially used by Alfred Marshall to describe some aspec
Partizánske in Slovakia – an example of a typical planned industrial city founded in 1938 together with a shoemaking factory in which practically all adult inhabitants of the city were employed.
Industrialisation
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Industrialisation or industrialization is "the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian and feudal society into an industrial society. This involves an exten
Industrial district
…At the end of the 1990s the industrial districts in developed or developing countries had gained a recognised attention in international debates on industrialisation and policies of regional development. The term was used the first time by Alfred Marshall in The Principles of Economics (1890, 1922) and in his Industry…
Industrialisation also means the mechanisation of traditionally manual economic sectors such as agriculture.
Factories, refineries, mines, and agribusiness are all elements of industrialisation.
An 1886 portrait by Robert Koehler depicting agitated workers facing a factory owner in a strike
A panorama of Guangzhou at dusk