Deindustrialisation

Question 1

What is deindustrialisation?

Answer 1

Industry closing / factories closing

Question 2

Why did industrialisation happen?

Answer 2

• containerisation: large ships bring in goods but couldn’t fit inn docks
• cheaper to make goods elsewhere: cheaper labour and material cost (globaisation)

Question 3

What is the case study for deindustrialisation?

Answer 3

Docklands

Question 4

What are the social issues in the dock lands ?

Answer 4

• social segregation

- brain drain; most intelligent people moved

Question 5

What are the economic issues inn the dock lands?

Answer 5

• 10,000 people lost their jobs
• between 1960’s - 1981 1.6 million lost their jobs
• high level of unemployment
• house prices decline

Question 6

What is the timeline of the dock lands?

Answer 6

1800’s = docklands and lea valley thriving
1930’s = Suburbanisation
1960’s - 70’s = containerisation = unemployment, Dlands and lea valley closed
1980’s = urban decline,, dereliction, people move