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Industry
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Industry
:''For other uses of this term, see
Industry (disambiguation)''
An '''industry''' is generally any grouping of
businesses that share a common method of generating profits, such as the "music industry", the "automobile industry", or the "cattle industry". It is also used specifically to refer to an area of
economics economic production focused on
manufacturing which involves large amounts of
capital (economics) capital investment before any
profit can be realized, also called "heavy industry.". As-of 2004,
Financial services is the largest industry (or category of industries) in the world in terms of earnings.
Industry in the second sense became a key sector of production in
European and
North American countries during the
Industrial Revolution, which upset previous
mercantile and
feudal economies through many successive rapid advances in technology, such as the development of
steam engines,
power looms, and advances in large scale
steel and
coal production. Industrial countries then assumed a
capitalism capitalist economic policy.
Railroads and
Steamboat steam-powered ships began speedily integrating previously impossibly-distant world markets, enabling private
company (law) companies to develop to then-unheard of size and
wealth. Following the Industrial Revolution, perhaps a third of the world's economic output is derived from manufacturing industries—more than
agriculture's share, but now less than that of the
service sector.
In
economics and
urban planning, ''industrial'' is an intensive type of land use and economic activity involved with
manufacturing and production.
See also
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Primary sector of industry
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Secondary sector of industry
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Tertiary sector of industry
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Quaternary sector of industry
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Industrial policy
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Adam Smith
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capitalism
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communism
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economics
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Industrial archaeology
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Marxism
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political economy
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Industrial process
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