For other uses of this term, see Industry (disambiguation)

An industry is generally any grouping of businesses that share a common method of generating profits, such as the "music industry", the "automobile industry", or the "cattle industry". It is also used specifically to refer to an area of economic production focused on manufacturing which involves large amounts of capital investment before any profit can be realized, also called "heavy industry.". As-of 2004, Financial services is the largest industry (or category of industries) in the world in terms of earnings.

Industry in the second sense became a key sector of production in European and North American countries during the Industrial Revolution, which upset previous mercantile and feudal economies through many successive rapid advances in technology, such as the development of steam engines, power looms, and advances in large scale steel and coal production. Industrial countries then assumed a capitalist economic policy. Railroads and steam-powered ships began speedily integrating previously impossibly-distant world markets, enabling private companies to develop to then-unheard of size and wealth. Following the Industrial Revolution, perhaps a third of the world's economic output is derived from manufacturing industries—more than agriculture's share, but now less than that of the service sector.

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@Thelowercaseh fasho DM me contact. What name do u go by in the industry?
BRICKNuMogul2 (Ryan limbrick) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:39:44 -0000
@Thelowercaseh fasho DM me contact. What name do u go by in the industry?
#type 2 diabetes Study reveals condescesion, patronizing attitude by health care industry pisses off t2drs
DubiyaGeeBeeTee (grant bt) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:35:05 -0000
#type 2 diabetes Study reveals condescesion, patronizing attitude by health care industry pisses off t2drs
Perhaps the rape of America by the health insurance industry is coming to an end.
PFKNC (Phil Kusiak) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:33:04 -0000
Perhaps the rape of America by the health insurance industry is coming to an end.
RT @justinwarfield: I wish things could really change. Like REAL healthcare reform by it not being a for-profit industry that rewards NOT
Mas_Bella (★ └A MaS BeLLa ★) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:26:45 -0000
RT @justinwarfield: I wish things could really change. Like REAL healthcare reform by it not being a for-profit industry that rewards NOT
RT @2010_Vision You really have to love Michele Bachman! See her Auto Industry taken over by US Govt Gangsters video @ http://bit.ly/3pPEt7
owendbanks (We Owe The Banks) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:25:34 -0000
RT @2010_Vision You really have to love Michele Bachman! See her Auto Industry taken over by US Govt Gangsters video @ http://bit.ly/3pPEt7
I wish things could really change. Like REAL healthcare reform by it not being a for-profit industry that rewards NOT covering + sickness
justinwarfield (Justin Warfield) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:18:11 -0000
I wish things could really change. Like REAL healthcare reform by it not being a for-profit industry that rewards NOT covering + sickness

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