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- Manufacturing involves a full array of production from handicrafts to moulding iron and steel and stamping out plastic toys to assembling delicate computer components or space vehicles.
- In each of these processes, the common characteristics are the application of power, mass production of identical products and specializedLabour in factory settings for the production of standardized commodities.
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Organizational Structure and Stratification
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- A complex machine technology
- Extreme specialization and division of labor for producing more goods with less effort, and low costs
- Vast capital
- Large organisations
- Executive bureaucracy.
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Uneven Geographic Distribution
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- Major Concentrations of modern manufacturing have flourished in a few numbers of places.
- These cover less than 10 per cent of the world‘s land area. These nations have become the centres of economic and political power.
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