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