Low-Wage Industrialization and Town Size in Rural Appalachia

Lineback, Neal G.

doi:10.1353/sgo.1972.0005

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“…The first stage then "socializes" the work force to the factory setting in the manner described by Lineback [27], and in an earlier document by Carrier and Schriver .…”

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Industrial Transition and the Location of High-Technology Branch Plants in the Nonmetropolitan Southeast

Johnson¹

1989

Economic Geography

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Clark University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic Geography. The purpose of this study is to examine the broad issue of industrial restructuring in the South, focusing on the role of industrial experience as a locational influence on selected high-technology industrial sectors. All counties in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia are initially included in an examination using published data sources. A subsequent more detailed analysis covers only high-technology branch plants in nonmetropolitan counties, using questionnaires as the primary source of information. It is concluded that no clear labor-oriented industrial transition process is identifiable in these states and that the introduction of high-technology branch plants to the nonmetropolitan South should not necessarily be interpreted as a meaningful departure from past industrial trends.

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“…The first stage then "socializes" the work force to the factory setting in the manner described by Lineback [27], and in an earlier document by Carrier and Schriver .…”

Section: Theoretical Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industrial Transition and the Location of High-Technology Branch Plants in the Nonmetropolitan Southeast

Johnson¹

1989

Economic Geography

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“…Lineback employment." These firms transformed the local work force from agriculturalists to disciplined factory workers, thereby bridging the socialization gap between agriculture and high-wage manufacturing [12]. Till [25, p. 20] suggested a similar process in which the first wave of lowwage firms accustomed the labor force to factory habits and discipline, of which other firms could take advantage.…”

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Postwar Industrial Development in the Southeast and the Pioneer Role of Labor-Intensive Industry

Johnson¹

1985

Economic Geography

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Clark University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic Geography.This study examines the role of labor-intensive manufacturing, particularly the textile and apparel industries, in the postwar industrial development of the Southeast. It is argued that this role continued to take the form of an early or pioneer involvement in the spread of industrial development, an involvement that has produced important but often overlooked changes in the postwar industrial geography of the area. Correlation matrices were used to examine the position of labor-intensive industry in this evolutionary process and to identify any differences in the types of labor markets sought by the textile and apparel industries that could have affected their pioneer roles. It was found that these industries could indeed be fit into a process of evolutionary change in the Southeast, that they continued to perform a pioneer function, and that this pioneer function led to expansion into less industrialized areas off the Piedmont. The apparel industry led in this expansion.

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An Empirical Update on the Product-Cycle Explanation and Branch-Plant Location in the Nonmetropolitan US South

Johnson

1991

Environ Plan A

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In this study an empirically based examination of the importance of the labor environment, defined in terms of late-stage product-cycle expectations, to the location of branch plants in the nonmetropolitan US South is presented. The data were derived from a questionnaire-based survey of selected branch-plant managers in eight southern states. The findings suggest that labor factors have been important to the location of branch plants, and that the product-cycle explanation has merit; however, the findings also suggest that the locational behavior of these plants has been a response to conditions not clearly embraced by the product-cycle conceptualization, leading to the conclusion that a more comprehensive model is required to explain industrial location in the rural South.

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Low-Wage Industrialization and Town Size in Rural Appalachia

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Industrial Transition and the Location of High-Technology Branch Plants in the Nonmetropolitan Southeast

Industrial Transition and the Location of High-Technology Branch Plants in the Nonmetropolitan Southeast

Postwar Industrial Development in the Southeast and the Pioneer Role of Labor-Intensive Industry

An Empirical Update on the Product-Cycle Explanation and Branch-Plant Location in the Nonmetropolitan US South

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