Across
- 3. makes something that gains volume or weight during production
- 4. result from the unique characteristics of a location; land, labor, and capital are the three traditional production factors that may vary among locations
- 6. the selective transfer of some low-skilled jobs to LDCs while higher-skilled jobs are left in MDCs
- 7. named this because work was done at home
- 9. a group of neighboring countries that promote trade with each other and erect barriers to limit trade with other blocs
- 13. assigning each worker one specific task to perform repeatedly; also called mass production
- 15. a location where transfer among transportation modes is possible
Down
- 1. an economic activity in which the final product weighs less than its inputs
- 2. one in which wages and other compensation paid to employees constitute a high percentage of expenses
- 5. involves transporting materials to and from a factory; a firm seeks a location that minimizes the cost of transporting inputs to the factory and finished goods to the consumers
- 8. factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico
- 10. originated in northern England and southern Scotland, in part because the region during the late eighteenth century contained a remarkable concentration of innovative engineers and mechanics
- 11. sometimes used to describe flexible production, as a contrast with Fordist production
- 12. requires a factory to maintain a so-called “open-shop” and prohibits a “closed-shop”
- 14. woven fabrics