Notes

MOVING FROM AN INDUSTRIAL TO A POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

-Recently many factories in major industrial cities, particularly in MDC's, have closed down as countries try to make the transition from an industrial to a postindustrial society. As manufacturing declines throughout these major industrial cities, economic activity shifts toward the service sector, or tertiary sector. this transition from an economy dominated by manufacturing. (i.e., secondary sector activities) to one based on services sector activities characterizes the transition from an industrial to a postindustrial society.

-The declined of industries in major cities throughout the east and Midwest, such as Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, and New York, this area of the United States has earned the moniker "Rust Belt". Today the fastest growing area in the United States is known as the "Sunbelt" and includes southern cities such as Atlanta, Charllote, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix.

-Sunbelt cities have prospered in the postindustrial period for several reasons. One is the good climate. Postindustrial activities are not resource dependant and therefore are not restricted to specific sites, so industries can locate in places with a favorable climate

-Sunbelt are right-to-work states, meaning that laborers are not required to join unions, and thus labor is usually cheaper. In contrast, most Rust belt states are heavily unionized.