Is Deindustrialization a Myth? Capital Mobility versus Absorptive Capacity in the U.S. Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9754529 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barry Bluestone (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 475 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-51 |
| Publication date | 1984-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716284475001004 |
| OpenAlex | W2159882888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 1 |
The current debate concerning the necessity and propriety of establishing an industrial policy for the United States turns, to a significant extent, on the question of whether the nation is undergoing deindustrialization. Using data on aggregate trends in manufacturing employment, Robert Z. Lawrence and others at the Brookings Institution claim that despite widespread plant closings during the 1970s, most employment loss was cyclical in nature and not permanent. In this article, new evidence on individual industries and regions is explored to test again the deindustrialization thesis. The conclusion of the current study is that while aggregate manufacturing employment has remained constant over the past decade, substantial permanent job losses have occurred in key basic industries and in particular regions of the nation. These employment losses pose a serious problem because the economy generally fails to provide comparable jobs in other sectors that can absorb the workers who become displaced
Capital (architecture · Deindustrialization · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Institution · Job loss · Labour economics · Mythology · Political science · Unemployment · Economic Growth and Productivity · Economic Theory and Policy · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
Economic Globalization, Industrialization and Deindustrialization in Affluent Democracies
Who Wants What?
The Restructuring of Geographical Scale
Restructuring or Destructuring
Place-based just transition
Mapping Corporations, Connecting Communities
Navigating regional opportunity spaces
Increasing poverty in timber‐dependent areas in Western Washington
Institutional determinants of brownfield formation in Chinese cities and urban villages
The transition of the mentally retarded from school to work
Key Sectors
Returning to work
Continuity and Evolution in an Old Industrial Region
Why Windsor deindustrialized differently than Detroit
Industrial and geographical mobility of workers during industry decline
The Policy Response to Factory Closings
Industrial Geography
Working 'Over-Time
Sex, Lies, and Statistics
Explaining Deindustrialization
Making Labour-Market Geographies
Factory Women, Redundancy and the Search for Work
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2025 (42) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |