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  2. Industrial society - Wikipedia

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    Chicago and Northwestern railroad locomotive shop in the 20th century. In sociology, an industrial society is a society driven by the use of technology and machinery to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour.

  3. Industrialisation - Wikipedia

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    The effect of industrialisation shown by rising income levels in the 19th century, including gross national product at purchasing power parity per capita between 1750 and 1900 in 1990 U.S. dollars for the First World, including Western Europe, United States, Canada and Japan, and Third World nations of Europe, Southern Asia, Africa, and Latin America [1] The effect of industrialisation is also ...

  4. List of countries by industrial production growth rate

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    This is a list of countries by industrial production growth rate mostly based on The World Factbook, [1] as of September 2024.. A colour-coded map showing countries or territories by industrial production growth rate in 2017 in percentages, based on data from The World Factbook.

  5. Rostow's stages of growth - Wikipedia

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    Take-off then occurs when sector led growth becomes common and society is driven more by economic processes than traditions. At this point, the norms of economic growth are well established. In discussing the take-off, Rostow is a noted early adopter of the term “transition”, which is to describe the passage of a traditional to a modern ...

  6. Post-industrial society - Wikipedia

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    Post-industrialism as a concept is highly Western-centric. Theoretically and effectively, it is only possible in the Global West, which its proponents assume to be solely capable of fully realizing industrialization and then post-industrialization.

  7. Industrial city - Wikipedia

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    Potential needs such as raw materials, transportation and labor required for the establishment of industrial zones require consultation of the local and general public. Therefore, special policies are needed. This situation causes industrial zones and industrialists to take on an additional role in terms of policy.

  8. Three-sector model - Wikipedia

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    Three sectors according to Fourastié Clark's sector model This figure illustrates the percentages of a country's economy made up by different sector. The figure illustrates that countries with higher levels of socio-economic development tend to have less of their economy made up of primary and secondary sectors and more emphasis in tertiary sectors.

  9. Economy of East Asia - Wikipedia

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    As medieval Japanese society became more advanced, East Asia's first marketplaces began to take root as entrepreneurial merchants and artisans supplied manufactured goods to opening markets throughout the entire country. Self-employed artisans lived in settlements as villages and towns began to take shape, creating a tradition of handicrafts.