ABSTRACT
The United States affords many excellent examples of the localization of industries, which is really another name for the geographical division of labor. Thus the boot and shoe industry is predominant in Massachusetts; collars and cuffs are made in Troy, New York; gloves are produced in Gloversville and Johnstown, New York; brassware in Waterbury, Connecticut; carpets in Philadelphia; jewelry in Providence, Rhode Island, and the neighboring towns of Attleboro and North Attleboro, Massachusetts; plated silverware is made in Meriden, Connecticut; silk, in Paterson, New Jersey. Other examples might be given, and, of course, the generally recognized division of the country into industrial and agricultural sections, characterized by different types of industries, and by the dominance of different crops is itself an example of the territorial division of labor.
