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Explore the reasons behind why jobs are leaving Michigan as globalization and global competition drive companies to produce goods elsewhere. Discover how outsourcing, flexible work rules, and cost-cutting strategies contribute to the shifting job landscape.
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Work In the 21st Century Workers are again pushed and pulled to new jobs in new places…
Why do jobs leave Michigan? • Goods (like automobiles) are being produced elsewhere. • These goods are selling well in the United States and worldwide.
Why produce elsewhere? • Avoid rules about work, set by unions • Avoid taxes and rules about work and pollution, set by the government • Want people around the world to buy cars • Don’t want to ship cars around the world • And want people to have jobs so they can buy cars • So move factories closer to these new markets
Globalization Global competition • For products: Americans import better or cheaper products from other countries • For jobs: Outsourcing of jobs to countries where work rules are more flexible & labor is cheaper Advertisement for the 1986 Nissan Stanza Wagon, "Nissan Innovation Strikes Again" From the Collections of The Henry Ford, ID# THF73709
Rust Belt to Sun Belt Migration • Outsourcing of jobs to areas where labor is cheaper and more flexible • Jobs are moving so people are moving Image Source: The Growth and Distribution of American Cities:1790 to 2000. U.S. Census Bureau. Available via http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/maps_1790to2000.html
Rust Belt to Sun Belt Migration Image Source: The Growth and Distribution of American Cities:1790 to 2000. U.S. Census Bureau. Available via http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/maps_1790to2000.html