Postwar Economic Development


  1. Shift to Manufacturing and Service Emphasis--Outline
  2. Contributing Factors
    1. Postwar Prosperity--Economic Convergence on US
    2. Lower Transport Costs
      1. Railroads--Freight-Rate Equalization
      2. Highways
      3. Air Transport
    3. Release of Workers From Agriculture
    4. State Industrial Development Programs--BAWI (Balance Agriculture With Industry) in Mississippi (1936)--"Smokestack Chasing"
      1. Government Subsidies to Manufacturers
      2. Industrial Parks
      3. Job Training
    5. Labor Factors
      1. Lack of Unionization--Failure of CIO's postwar "Operation Dixie"
      2. Low Wages
  3. A Better Economic Balance
    1. Oil and Chemicals
    2. Defense Industry
    3. Resorts
    4. Service Industries
  4. The Rise of the "Sunbelt" City
  5. Is All Well?
    1. Continuing Poverty
      1. Appalachia
      2. The Black Belt
    2. "Deindustrialization"