Last of Unit 6 Notes: Deindustrialization

TURN IN CIRCLE OF KNOWLEDGE WSs to TRAY!!

Why are location factors changing?(Get NOTEBOOKS OUT and jot down):

Labor is the main site factor for why locations factors are changingAttraction of new industrial regions

International shifts in industryEast AsiaSouth AsiaLatin America

Changing distributionsOutsourcing

Today’s Agenda

Notes (10 mins) Maquiladoras Frayer Model + ESPeN

(25 mins) Notes (5 mins) PBL Work NOTE: only day to work on

until part 1 due on Friday (in media center)

Time-Space Compression

Just-in-time delivery› Rather than keeping a large

inventory of components or products, companies keep just what they need for short-term production and new parts are shipped quickly when needed.

Global division of labor› Corporations can draw from

labor around the globe for different parts of production (footloose industry)

Why has this happened?

Core factors are increasingly automated.

Multinational Corporations move labor-intensive to peripheral countries › Why? › Labor is cheap

Export Processing Zones

Lower wages than core

Lower taxes Weaker safety

and environmental regulations

Ability to pit workers against each other, or to repress unions

U.S. is increasingly outsourcing jobs:

China, the birthplace of your Nike's

Port of Hong Kong

China, the birthplace of your Nike'sand socks and underwear and ….

Significance of container shipping, break of bulk point/entrepot

Puget Sound – on the way from Victoria, BC to Seattle Port of Elizabeth, NJ

Port of NY/NJ – December 29, 2008

Major Manufacturing Regions of East Asia

Shanghai SteelMill

Maquiladoras Case Study (25 mins)

Sketch the following in your journals + an ESPeN underneath. Then read the article and complete

Definition (IN YOUR OWN WORDS):):

Words from article not in definition, but related:

Images or Examples: Relate it to something else you know (can make a simile or metaphor):

Discuss article:

What are maquiladoras? What are the issues related to the

maquiladoras in Mexico?

Journal reflection to respond to the article: What is your opinion? What do you suggest?

Labor Exploitation PBL

How might this help with your project? What options are there to help ensure

fair treatment of labor abroad?

Free Trade /Fair Trade ProductsA movement to treat workers in periphery countries better. The certification shows the workers are getting a fair wage.

Alternative: Consumer choices

Purchasing “Fair Trade” products from small, chemical-free farms in the Periphery

www.GlobalExchange.org See Fair Trade case study in Knox text

Alternative: Consumer action

Students pressure universities to sign on toWorkers Rights Consortium, to ensure that

college apparel is not made in “sweatshops”http://www.workersrights.org

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~fragola/usas/index.html

Alternative: Microlending to people

“Banking for the poor” to empower small business and agriculture (Grameen Bank)

Alternative: Keeping resource profits

Jamaican bauxite(aluminum) owned byCanadians, Europeans

Alternative: Forgive

Periphery’sdebts

http://jubileeusa.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/09/haiticonstitution.jpg

Ironies of economic globalization? Supposed to help everyone progress

Are the rules written by and for elites?

Many feel:

› Only benefiting some Core and Periphery citizens

› Widening gap between Core and Periphery.

PBL Work Time

Due Friday Group work to start paper.. Outline..

What you want to say Make task chart.. Tuesday stamp

Day 2: Deindustrialization: What are the effects?

Journal Opening: What’s your prior knowledge? Get out a

full piece of paper. And make a chart with pre-industrial, industrial, post-industrial (you will complete this later).

Jot down some things you know about life in each of these. Also provide a question you have about each.

Turn to Notebooks for last bit of notes:

Why has the core deindustrialized? A look at my home:

Deindustrialization

in the Core

Relative decline in industrial employment› Automation and “runaway shops”

(an industrial plant moved by its owners from one location to another to escape union labor regulations or state laws)

Reinvestment in higher profit areas› Sunbelt states (non-union)› Semi-periphery and Periphery

Collapse of Manufacturing =Rust Belt

Replaced in Boston, Pittsburgh by high-tech industries

• Creative destruction: the process of industrial transformation that accompanies radical innovation.

• So what….– Deindustrialization in one location suggests that growth is occurring in a separate location• Capital is not destroyed, it is displaced.

Joseph Schumpeter – the Father of *Creative Destruction

President Reagan – also liked the idea !

Movement of jobs and people to the Sunbelt

New High Technology Landscape in France

Liverpool as a case study

Can prosperity be restored inolder, industrial, U.S. Cities?

Hartford Detroit Pittsburgh

Image Activity: Buffalo

You will fill in the rest of your chart as you rotate desks to look at different images.

Be sure to write the Image #, where you think it belongs and what characteristics (specifics) you can pull out from the image(s).

Share: What did you discover about pre-industrial, industrial, and post-industrial

De-industrialization Wrap-up:

Journal Reflection: In 2 sentences summarize the life and landscape of each: pre-industrial, industrial, post-industrial.

I will come stamp and we will Discuss as a whole.

So what happens in the post-industrial? What do you think? Can they overcome the struggles?

Story about Buffalo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT11IdWPvfc

Quick Review(What we should know now,

online for you to review)

Deindustrialization Effects:

Has left older industrial cities struggling to find their economic niche.

Older industrial cities haven’t fully transitioned from an industrial economy to an innovative, entrepreneurial one.

This economic shift began with companies fleeing older industrial cities for their suburbs.

Decreasing transport costs, low-cost land, and the search for lower-skilled, lower-cost workers took companies south and west.

More companies are moving labor-intensive operations out of the country, taking advantage of low-cost workers and reduced regulation.

Cont. Long-term legacy costs of the industrial economy

continue to hamper the recovery of older industrial cities.

The dominance of older established industries can hinder entrepreneurialism and diversification.

Lower levels of educational attainment put these cities at a disadvantage in the competition for new firms.

Many are left with a tremendous environmental legacy: there are an estimated 5 million acres of abandoned industrial sites and contaminated brownfields (abandoned or underused industrial property) in U.S. cities alone.

Is revitalization possible?

Older industrial cities have numerous assets that set them apart.

Cultural assets: cultural institutions, Professional sports teams, vibrant street life.

Economic assets: regional employment centers, downtown cores, concentrations of universities and medical industry.

Physical assets: waterfronts, transit infrastructure, historic buildings.

Industry Quiz 2

Take 5 minutes to study with a partner. Be sure to study everything we have learned about industry this unit. (i.e. Rostow’s, types of industries, how we determine where industry is, modes of development, etc.)

You will have 25 minutes to take the quiz. (there is a short FRQ based on what we learned today).

Remember:

Background paper due Friday! We will be in the media center on Friday to type it up.

Suggestion: separation of paragraphs…

A Home in Niagara Falls…