manufacturing base
Industrial capacity core
A manufacturing base is the industrial capacity of a region, country, or economy—its factories, workers, equipment, and infrastructure for producing goods.
Politicians and economists discuss whether a nation's manufacturing base is growing or shrinking: The country's manufacturing base has eroded over decades of outsourcing.
A strong manufacturing base implies economic self-sufficiency and job stability.
- skilled laborTrained professional work
- blue collarManual labor workforce
- raw materialsUnprocessed production inputs
- heavy industryCapital-intensive manufacturing sector
- apprenticesNovices learning a craft
engineers · machinery · assembly line · machinists · shop steward · automation · industrial park · technicians · workshop · transportation network · inventory management · trade deficit · operators · robotics · warehouse · distribution center · supervisors · production managers
- business location factorsnatural resources, cheap labor, tax breaks, skilled workforce, infrastructure
manufacturing baseservice economy
System based on intangible work
service sector · knowledge economy · information economy · financial sector · agrarian economy
manufacturing baseagrarian economy
Agriculture-dominated financial structure
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