Effects of TNCs in Detroit Flashcards
What TNCs were involved in industrialising Detroit?
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler
What was the impacts of TNCs investing in Detroit?
Massive economic boost
Increase in higher wage jobs
Altered demographic characteristics of city - large increase in migrant population
How did the population of Detroit change in the 1950’s?
peak of 1.8 million in the 1950s
What were the impacts of TNCs relocating to cheaper labour markets in the 1950s?
Massive population decrease - from 1.8million in 1950s → 700,000 in 2010
Reductions in employment - in 2010, 24% of workforce unemployed
Social deprivation - some of highest crime rates in US
How did the population of Detroit change after the 1950’s?
White flight
- from 1.8million in 1950s → 700,000 in 2010
How did levels of unemployment change in Detroit?
Reductions in employment - in 2010, 24% of workforce unemployed
How did social inequality change in Detroit?
concentration of poverty in city centre as middle-classes out-migrate;
lack of public spending > decline in built environment/loss of social cohesion/increase in crime (derelict buildings attract crime); falling life expectancy (mainly due to increase in crime);
Fall in public spending
What was the impact of a falling in public spending in Detroit?
impact on pensions;
brain drain (out-migration of professionals)
decline in standard of public services (healthcare/education)
