Milling Cutter

In the pre-industrial world, most manufacturing occurred in rural areas, where household-based manufacturing served as a supplemental subsistence strategy to agriculture (and continues to do so in places). Entrepreneurs organized a number of manufacturing households into a single enterprise through the putting-out system.

• Emerging technologies have provided some new growth in advanced manufacturing employment opportunities in the Manufacturing Belt in the United States.
• Manufacturing provides important material support for national infrastructure and for national defense.