industrial base
Economic production capacity
Industrial base refers to a nation's or region's manufacturing capacity and infrastructure—the factories, workers, supply chains, and technical capabilities that produce goods, especially those critical for defense or economic independence.
Military strategists worry about maintaining an industrial base capable of wartime production: The country's industrial base has eroded since the 1980s.
The term often appears in discussions of economic policy and national security.
- engineersTechnical problem solvers
- machinistsSkilled metal-shaping workers
- manufacturing plantsIndustrial production facilities
- raw materialsUnprocessed production inputs
- assembly linesSequential manufacturing arrangement
steel mill · economic zones · components · warehouses · electricians · trade agreements · distributors · welders · subsidies · technicians · workforce training · factory workers · blue collar · skilled labor · tariffs · designers · power grids · defense contractor
industrial baseservice economy
System based on intangible work
service sector · knowledge economy · information economy · agricultural economy · digital economy
industrial basesubsistence economy
System without market surplus
agrarian society · deindustrialization · agricultural economy · feudal economy · cottage industry
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