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In economics, to simplify, labor and capital. Light industry is labor intensive industry while heavy industry is focused on capital investment.
By way of an example: Digging holes can be labor or capital intensive. You can use 1000 workers with cheap shovels (labor intensive) or 1 worker with an expensive "steam shovel" (capital intensive). Some things cannot be done either way like picking strawberries (labor intensive) or manufacturing microcircuits (capital intensive).
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Labor intensive agriculture means it primarily uses physical labor of humans. Machinery intensive agriculture means it primarily uses the power of machinery to do labor, instead of or along with human beings doing the work.
labour is hand made meaning without machines capital is with machines
requiring a large investment in capital goods and a relatively small labor force a capital-intensive industry or plant
It totally depends on what business you are running, such as a builder would want a labor intensive business, whilst a car maker would want a capital intensive business, disserent businesses need different things.
A bank or investment company would be considered 'capital intensive' , a construction company or landscaping company would be considered 'labour intensive' because they employ more people to try for the same gains.
The capital-intensive nature of paper manufacturing means that cheaper overseas labor has less of an impact on manufacturing costs than in other, more labor-intensive industries.
The primary difference between product markets and factor markets is that factors of production like labor and capital are part of factor markets and product markets are markets for goods.
Business is the organization which accumulates labor and capital in such a way that some product or service is created that can be exchanged either for other such productions or an intermediary (such as money or credit). Labor refers to human capital that is "put to work."