manufacturing and operations
commercial enterprises
occupations and professions, labor processes, jobs, and careers
concepts
Manufacturing—the production of physical goods—is the definitional backbone of industrial society. Whereas an agricultural society relies on growing food or cash crops and a postindustrial society is characterized by the provision of services, an industrial society is defined by the design and putting together of tangible human-made objects, a pursuit that occupies a large portion of its workers. [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; Manufacturing]
manufacturing