During the early years of the Great Migration (1915-1930), over one million African Americans moved north, drawn by the possibilities of jobs. Migrants often encountered young African American social service professionals who worked as placement secretaries and ''efficiency men and women'' in the ...
The Industrial Revolution created an increase in employment opportunities.Wagesat factories were higher than what individuals were making as farmers. As factories became widespread, additional managers and employees were required to operate them, increasing the supply of jobs and overall wages. As most ...
China's success in pandemic control and economic recovery have won a window period to take an initiative in GVC restructuring. To some extent, the pandemic has slowed the migration of China's labor-intensive manufacturing to Southeast Asia. Amid rising factor cost and trade protectionism, China'...
What were the problems of urbanization during the Industrial Revolution? The problems of urbanization during the Industrial Revolution included poor working conditions as people competed for the available jobs. Lack of cleanliness was another problem of urbanization as factory owners could not provide work...
jobs. In Great Britain, one is never far from the ocean due to the small size of the island and the massive waterway system—both natural and manmade—that many have access to. This allows for trade and transport to be quick and easy both inside and outside of the country. However, ...
After that, mining industry restructuring resulted in the loss/elimination of thousands of jobs, permanent unemployment and widening of the poverty zone. Closed mines and coking plants left a degraded natural environment, post-production waste and the abandonment of previously thriving post-industrial ...
Furthermore, this critical role of the industrial park has inspired other emirates to construct similar industrial parks to attract local and foreign investment and create jobs. As a result of this accomplishment, other Middle Eastern countries, such as Oman, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, have paid at...
“All of a sudden, landowners didn't need as many people working on their land anymore, so they moved [the tenant farmers] off of it,” he notes. “And that was, in essence, the beginning of the Great Migration. From then through the World War II era, African Americans moved in ...
For largely abandoned places such as downtown Detroit, Michigan, and Camden, New Jersey, loss of factory jobs and the suburbanization of the middle class have produced an urban wasteland. In the work, for example, of Camilo Vergara this has yielded an esthetic of industrial ruin that has a...
“Is it worth it if we as a country succeed in reaching our targets in reducing carbon emissions, but sacrifice good jobs and our industrial base?” Another misleading headline I get tired of reading states that humans may be headed for a 6th mass extinction. Let’s clarify this statement ...