Getting ready for the essay on Chapter 11. Take notes on Secondary-Sector Industrialization.
· Read about early industrialization in North America, starting on p. 375 and ending on p. 377. Be familiar with the industrial areas of New England and the Great Lakes.
· Make sure you can analyze and explain the map on p. 377. Remember the terms: Rust Belt, Sun Belt, and Silicon Valley. Why are the latter two areas attracting industry?
· Read about industrial growth in East Asia, p. 380 to the top of 381.
· Make sure you read from p. 381 to p. 393.
ü Know what human geographers mean by site factors, “land, labor and capital.” Be able to give specific examples of what these terms mean.
ü Situation is all about transportation: Be able to explain: bulk-gaining, bulk-losing, single-market; and break-of-bulk point.
ü Read the “box” on p. 385 regarding “Selecting a site for Saturn”; it discusses site factors of land, labor and capital, as well as situation.
ü Be sure to study the U.S. maps, from p. 382 through p. 392 for how site and situation decisions have changed in the steel, automobile and textile industries.
ü Question to consider: Why are labor unions declining in clout? Rubenstein, p 386.
ü Understand how technology-intensive industries can be “foot-loose.” (See bottom of p. 393.)
· How is the new international division of labor changing global site decisions, p. 398, even making situation (transportation) less of a factor?
(Note: Labor-intensive industries are also “foot-loose”; they will relocate if labor makes demands, or governments tighten the rules.)
ü Why is the new international division of labor not benefitting LDCs to a great extent?
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We will look at our own area and Alliance Texas, north of Fort Worth, to discuss two other important generalizations:
· The agglomeration effect means that businesses can share certain costs, and therefore might like to locate near each other. Shared costs can include infrastructure and marketing. Agglomeration, a land factor, can reduce the needed amount for start-up capital.
· The multiplier effect means that one industry attracts others to locate nearby, thus helping the industrial development of the whole area or region. Growth in a secondary sector industry may increase tertiary level jobs. The bottom line: this encourages more available capital for investment by creating more banks and lending institutions in the area.