Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part three. The field of manufacture

Collection:: Economics Books

272 Modern Business Geography flour milling, and smelting, — but are also beginning to produce more complex manufactured goods, such as farm machinery, which they have hitherto taken in considerable quantities from the United States. If the number of people were greater, Australia and New Zealand might soon become important manufacturing regions. South American industries. In the temperate parts of South Amer- ica, the countries of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay display conditions somewhat like those of Australia, but are not quite so advanced in- dustrially. Argentina and Uruguay thus far have done little manu- facturing except in preparing cereals and meat for the market. Chile, with coal, iron, and copper within easy reach, has established steel works at Corral and chemical works to produce iodine and borate of lime from the famous Chilean nitrates. India and China. The two most populous regions of Asia, India and China, are in a much more backward stage of manufacturing than are the countries hitherto discussed. In India a good deal is said about the cotton and jute factories, which employ about a quarter of a mil- lion people apiece. But the goods made there are practically all of the coarsest kind, while the total number of persons engaged in manu- facturing among the entire 315,000,000 people of India is less than among the 9,000,000 of Pennsylvania. Since manufacturing in China has not been fostered by a progressive government such as that of the British in India, it is even less devel- oped than in India. Nevertheless, enormous deposits of coal and iron, a vast and marvellously hardworking population, and a huge home market, even though the people are poor, are conditions highly favor- able to manufacturing. The great question is whether the Chinese have the initiative and inventiveness to carry on the complicated business of manufacturing without depending on foreigners. Why oriental countries excel in handmade goods. Thus far we have been considering only the kinds of manufactures made by machines. But handmade goods, such as the beautiful oriental rugs of Turkey and Persia, also enter into the world’s commerce. Their quantity is indeed very small compared with the others, but their beauty often gives them unusual importance. They are produced largely in orien- tal countries, partly because those countries, through long centuries of development, have acquired great skill in certain lines, and partly because western nations rarely have the patience to work long and painstakingly on articles which might be made almost as well by ma- chines and which rarely bring a price proportional to the work spent on them.

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