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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Deindustrialization"”.
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eThekwini's changing occupational structure : a question of deindustrialization and racial inequality
Scholars have argued that deindustrialization has had different effects on the occupational structure of South African cities. Some have argued for a polarisation of the occupational structure, where the decline of the manufacturing sector is argued to result in a loss of middle-income jobs. This …
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Deindustrialization and the urban landscape: race, space, and memory in Back of the Yards, 1950-1980
… industry. In particular, it examines how deindustrialization, beginning in the early 1950s, affected the workers’ definitions of themselves and their community and how it contributed to the neighborhood’s efforts to both attract new industry and prevent African-Americans from moving into …
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The Household Survival Strategies of Manufacturing Workers Displaced in Henry County and the New River Valley, 1990-2010
… data to answer three questions concerning the deindustrialization of southwest and southside Virginia. First, how have Radford City, Montgomery County, Pulaski County, the City of Martinsville and Henry County been affected by plant closures and mass layoffs at the community level? Second, how …
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From negotiation to auction : Land-Conveyance Reform in China and its institutional and social impacts
… Meanwhile, a large-scale government-led deindustrialization has been going on sine 1995 in city of Beijing, where many State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) were relocated from downtown Beijing to suburbs or other cities. I studied the change of the LCR from the former negotiation approach to …
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Desindustrialização: uma análise do caso brasileiro
… whether occurring in Brazil is the phenomenon of deindustrialization. After examining the data and the theoretical analysis has been possible to refute some formulations held true as the statement that Brazil would be de-industrializing naturally, through qualitative structural change through the …
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Bobcat traps and other theories
… has witnessed the decline of rural America. Deindustrialization, divestment, and economic crises have left rural spaces underdeveloped and mired in economic stagnancy; spaces that survive as little else but ruins. In the contemporary socio-political moment, rurality has come roaring back into …
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Transforming the "world factory" : designing for a [post]industrial Shenzhen
… Chinese cities are currently going through a deindustrialization process due to reasons such as rising labor costs, rising land costs and new environment laws. Shenzhen, which is a manufacturing center in South China, currently has a 30-45% factory vacancy because companies are leaving to …
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Is migration a solution to the earnings loss of the displaced workers in the segmented labor market in the U.S.?
… perspective, this study hypothesizes that deindustrialization has been squeezing workers from the subordinate (lower-tier) primary segment down and thus such workers suffered more loss than their counterparts from the independent (upper-tier) segment; since deindustrialization primarily …
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Cowboys, Postmodern Heroes, and Anti-heroes: The Many Faces of the Alterized White Man
… transitions brought on by industrialization and deindustrialization of 50's through 90's coincide with the representational changes of white masculinity from paradigmatic cowboy incarnations to the postmodern action heroes, specifically as embodied by Bruce Willis. The thesis also examines how …
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Cross-subsidy models for urban manufacturing
… Unlike numerous cities that witnessed complete deindustrialization after World War II, New York City has over the years transformed the identity of its Manufacturing districts. The revival of urban manufacturing in the heart of NYC, where the highest and best use is not in favor of industrial …
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Globalization, Labor Market Transformation, and Union Decline in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
… four measures of labor market transformation (deindustrialization, corporate restructuring, bureaucratic burden, and casualization) on metropolitan union density while controlling for labor market structure, the business cycle, and the political climate. My analysis demonstrates that: 1) …
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Detroit : open city
… has failed to recover from an insidious cycle of deindustrialization, racism, suburban flight and laggard politics. This image of the city highlights the tragic aspects of Detroit's urban development and obscures the numerous initiatives and opportunities for social and spatial development that …
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People, Land, and Profit in the South of Market: A Critical Analysis of the Central SoMa Plan
… Francisco. These transformations have included deindustrialization and the restructuring of the local economy after WWII, Urban Renewal, the intensification of office uses, and the first and second technology booms. City planning and the implementation of area plans (a type of city planning …
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Policy Partners in the Neoliberal Age: Corresponding School and Prison Reforms Since 1970
… converge as the city experienced massive deindustrialization and governmental cutbacks while its political economy shifted to one driven by finance, investment, real estate, and the growth of a low-wage service sector. These changes dramatically increased economic inequality across racial …
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The Political Economy of St. Catharines' Illicit Taxi Trade
… industrial heartland, has been hard hit by deindustrialization. The rise of this illegal service is thus viewed against the backdrop of heavy economic restructuring, as opportunities for work in the manufacturing sector have become sparse. In addition, this research also explores the …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
… the end of World War I through the period of deindustrialization after German reunification in the 1990s, it traces the efforts of company managers to modernize the German shop floor, the ways in which the working class cooperated with, rejected, or negated such strategies, and how diverse …
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Biased Technical Change, Institutional Shift, and the Functional Distribution of Income: Who Benefits from Economic Growth?
… and wage structure of advanced economies: deindustrialization and labor market polarization. By focusing on the case of the US, this thesis provides an empirical and theoretical review of the dynamics behind structural change and its effect on the functional distribution of income and …
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Technology and policy options for reducing industrial air pollutants in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area
… the cost of foregone production due to policy of deindustrialization.
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Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island
… and contracted for the unskilled. By the 1970s, deindustrialization reached the suburbs, leading to further job loss and strained suburban tax systems. African Americans disproportionately suffered from the transition, and their economic plight shaped the outcomes of local housing segregation. …
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Historic mills and cultural industries : a two-pronged approach to revitalization
Decades past deindustrialization, former industrial centers across Massachusetts are committed to preserving and transforming historic mills. A variety of adaptive reuse projects spearheaded by cities and redevelopers alike have contribute anew to the area's diminished economy. Yet many mill towns …
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