Unit 7 Practice FRQ: Deindustrialization

Deindustrialization affects the economic landscape of countries.

Describe the change in the dominant economic sector during industrialization and during deindustrialization.

Explain ONE spatial change in manufacturing employment patterns as a result of deindustrialization.

Explain ONE likely outcome of deindustrialization in a region of manufacturing communities.

Comparing the development of steel and the invention of the computer chip, explain how technological development drove economic change in both the Industrial Revolution and the transition to a servicebased economy.

Describe the significance of a growth pole in an urban or regional economy.

Explain how post-Fordist methods of production have transformed operations at individual factories.

Explain the degree to which least-cost theory predicts the local site-selection factors for the location of multinational service industry corporate offices.