Manufacturing Industry
Impact of Change
Collins Educational (Publisher)
Published on 17. June 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-00-326642-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Manufacturing Industry" includes the following topics: factors affecting industrial location; patterns and change in industry; impacts on the social, physical and economic environment; structure and influence of large organizations; role of governments; and decision-making processes.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 16 years
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
colour illustrations, maps, tables, graphs
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-326642-9 (9780003266429)
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New editions
Book
07/2000
2nd Edition
Collins Educational
€66.43
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Content
Manufacturing industry; patterns processes and change - Taiwan, Thailand, Botswana; materials, energy and transport - Lancashire cotton, world iron and steel, Weber's, Hoover's, spatial profit margins; markets - world automobiles, Pertorp AB, Losch's; labour and capital - world hi-tech, location quotients; external economies and government - world aerospace; decision-making - Pred's behavioural matrix; the organization of firms - US branch plants in Mexico, product life cycle, structuralism; regional disparities and industrial change - EC regions, UK, Italy, Thailand, cumulative causation; manufacturing in the peripheral regions - Highlands and islands of Scotland, Nord-Pas-de-Calais; urban industrial change - London's Docklands, constrained location, urban-rural shift; the physical and social environment - Consett, industrial pollution in Northern Britain; manufacturing and land-use conflict - Sunderland, Shipley.