Has American Industry Been Decentralizing? The Evidence for the 1939-1954 Period

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ID4040906
AuthorsWilbur Zelinsky (corresponding author)
Year1962
Volume38
Issue3
Pages251
Publication date1962-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/142374
OpenAlexW2334873605
LanguageEN
Citations received4

I N a previous article by the present writer' a relatively complex method for measuring change in the location of manufacturing activity was proposed and the technique applied in an analysis of relative shifts of industry among State Economic Areas for the period 1939 to 1947. The purpose of the present paper is to extend this study forward to the 1954 Census of Manufactures, to re-examine earlier findings and problems in the light of the newer data, and also to scrutinize another major aspect of change in the location of ml-anufacturinig intra-miietropolitai shifts. In the initial study it was found that in the 1939-1947 period there had been a significant relative dispersion of industrial activity out from the metropolitan areas into the adjacent, relatively un industrialized regions, from the eastern to the western portions of the aiianufacturing Belt, and from the M/ianufacturing Belt in general to the outer reaches of the nation. Even though an over-all pattern of decentralization from the industrialized core of the nation to various sub-industrial regions was discerned, whether gauged in terms of relative shifts of value added by manufacture or those in production workers (the V and the E factors2)

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