Geography Reference
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6.3. Industrial change
Unlike most other economic sectors, manufacturing did not create jobs between
1970 and 2000. In fact, the sector declined by 3% between 1970 and 2000, from
19.7 million jobs to 19.1 million jobs. At the same time, industrial employment was
geographically redistributed across the territory.
This is probably the most significant factor in explaining long-term population
and settlement dynamics in the United States during the last third of the 20th
century.
Relative change
% Employment 1970
50
0 km
0
300 or more
100
-
300
Absolute change
1970 - 2000
110,000
-110,000
-550,000
Method: Quartic Kernel density
smoothing in a flexible bandwidth
of the 30 nearest counties
0
-
100
0
-
-3
-30
-
-3
National avg. change -3%
up to
-30
-1,100,000
Source: US Census Bureau
Designed and made by JM Zaninetti, University of Orleans, CEDETE Institute
Figure 6.3.
Industrial employment 1970-2000
