The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to industry:
Industry, in economics and economic geography, refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.[1]
Essence of industry
In some cases industries can be harmful like drowning harmful acids in the water bodies but industries are very important for a country's growth and economy.
Industry sectors
- Primary sector of the economy (the raw materials industry)
- Secondary sector of the economy (manufacturing and construction)
- Tertiary sector of the economy (the "service industry")
- Quaternary sector of the economy (information services)
- Quinary sector of the economy (human services)
Major industries
Agriculture
Manufacturing
- Aerospace industry
- Automotive industry
- Chemical industry
- Construction industry
- Defense industry
- Electric power industry
- Electronics industry
- Energy industry
- Food industry
- Industrial robot industry
- Low technology industry
- Meat
- Mining
- Petroleum industry
- Pulp and paper industry
- Steel industry
- Shipbuilding industry
- Telecommunications industry
- Textile industry
- Water industry
Services
- Creative
- Cultural industry
- Culture industry
- Education industry
- Entertainment industry
- Financial services industry
- Healthcare industry
- Hospitality industry
- Information industry
- Leisure industry
- Mass media
- Professional services
- Real estate industry
- Retail industry
- Software industry
- Sport industry
- Transport industry
History of industry
General industrial concepts
- Air pollution
- Big business
- Colin Clark's Sector Model
- Economies of scale
- Employment tribunal
- Externality
- Global Industry Classification Standard
- Industrial action
- Industrial Age
- Industrial and organizational psychology
- Industrial and production engineering
- Industrial applicability
- Industrial archaeology
- Industrial coating
- Industrial control system
- Industrial data processing
- Industrial deconcentration
- Industrial democracy
- Industrial design
- Industrial design right
- Industrial disasters
- Industrial district
- Industrial ecology
- Industrial engineering
- Industrial espionage
- Industrial gas
- Industrial internet of things
- Industrial mineral
- Industrial organization
- Industrial park
- Industrial PC
- Industrial policy
- Industrial processes
- Industrial production index
- Industrial railway
- Industrial society
- Industrial sociology
- Industrial unionism
- Industrial waste
- Industrialist
- Industrialization
- Industry analyst
- Industry Structure Model
- Labour revolt
- Machine tooling
- Machining
- Market research
- Mass production
- Materials science
- Occupational injury
- Occupational noise
- Pricing
- Raw material
- Robber baron (industrialist)
- Science park
- Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
- Standard Industrial Classification
- Trade association
Industrial output
See also
References
- ^ "Industry | Define Industry at Dictionary.com". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2014-02-01.