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# Introduction | ||
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One essential question of economic geography might be something as simple as: | ||
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> Who does what work, where, and for whom? | ||
All work is coordinated in some fashion, across some geographic space. All work, then, by | ||
definition has a geography to it. A teenager in an American home, for example, may be responsible for taking | ||
the trash from the kitchen, and placing it on the street for curbside pickup by a professional sanitation | ||
worker, who brings that trash to some site somewhere else, where still other people process that trash. There | ||
is thus an abvious geohgraphy to the work of trash. | ||
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Obviously the particular geographic patterns and processes associated with different kind of work, and with | ||
historical and other context. | ||
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Globalization might be understood in part as the dramatic spatial expansion of divisions of labor. In 1965, for example, | ||
Ford Motor Company may have produced a Mustang through a process coordinated across a number of factories largely | ||
confined to a particular region of the United States. In 2012, Ford produces Mustangs with parts that comes factories | ||
across ** countries on ** continents. The company itself has entered into cross-border joint ventures with large | ||
multinational companies in Asia (Mazda) and Europe (**). | ||
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