The Rust Belt
- Created by: beebsbubbly
- Created on: 12-05-21 15:56
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- The Rust Belt
- What is it?
- Places across the north eastern USA that have declined from their metal manufacturing past
- Includes cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh and Chicago
- Heavy industry has declined since the 1950s
- Why did the Rust Belt decline?
- Overseas companies could produce the same products for a lower cost
- Mining machinery has made the industry less labour intensive
- Lower wages in the south eastern USA has caused car and steel plants to relocate
- Between 1993 and 2008, 80,000 jobs were lost in car manufacturing in the north east whilst 90,000 were gained in Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and Texas
- The US coal industry is only surviving because the government props it up with subsidies
- Deindustriali-sation in Detroit
- Once was a city based on car manufacturing
- During the 1980s, foreign car companies opened up non-unionised manufacturing plants in the south
- Cars could be manufactured cheaper
- Lots of derelict houses and facotries
- What is it?
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