The impacts of employment change between urban and rural

By end of the lesson: Identify links between economic change and urbanisation in an Industrialised country. To understand the emergence of informal urban economy To identify the factors leading to diversification of the rural economy To assess the environmental impacts of de-industrialisation and economic diversification of rural economy

What does Deindustrialisation mean? What is Industrialisation?

Mexico - an industrialising country Graph work What do you think Mexico’s employment structure is like? How would it compare to Germany’s?

Exam question: Compare the changes shown by employment in primary and secondary activity in Mexico between 1975 and 2005 (3 marks)

What differences do you notice? Mexico Employed % income Primary 15 4 Secondary 35 26 Tertiary 50 70 Germany Employed % income generations Primary 3 1 Secondary 31 29 Tertiary 66 70

Before After Mexico Germany What has happened to Glasgow? (page 196) Comment on the issues

Reasons for the changes in employment structure What are maquiladoras? What is an MNC? Why do companies from the USA choose to build factories in Mexico? How has this changed employment patterns? What impacts do maquiladoras have on the environment? Watch this clip

Maquiladoras assemble or process goods imported from the USA and then re-export them back to the USA duty free.

What does the future hold for Mexico? Mexico’s manufacturing sector is now in competition with other countries specialising in production such as China Government investment has risen in services and quaternary products eg. telecommunications, electricity production, airports, railways and sea ports Do you think this is a good strategy?

What NICs can you name?

Newly Industrialised Countries include: Mexico Hong Kong China Turkey Taiwan India Thailand Malaysia Singapore Brazil Video? Key questions: give 4 examples of NICs? Where are these located? What unifies these countries? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92PgEO395Lk http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/learningzone/clips/queryengine?ContentType=text%2Fhtml%3B+charset%3Dutf-8&SuppressCaching=1&page=1&pagesize=12&results=search&config=results_pre&attrib_1=SCHOOL_LEVEL_NAME&oper_1=eq&val_1_1=&attrib_2=SUBJECT_NAME&oper_2=eq&val_2_1=&attrib_3=TOPIC&oper_3=eq&val_3_1=&attrib_4=SearchText&oper_4=eq&val_4_1=mexico&clipsSearch.x=0&clipsSearch.y=0 South Africa These countries may not match those of developed nations but they are well ahead of developing countries

Common features of NIC’s

Common features of NIC’s Rapid e________ growth through export based on m_________ and cheap labour Have TNC’s (t_____ n__________ c____________) operating in them eg. Coca Cola/Nike Increasing trade with other countries What would political leadership be like? Common features of NIC’s What are the labour costs like? Switched from agricultural to ___________ economy Where do people increasing live? Strong or weak economic growth? What was this growth based on? What is investment in the countries like? Where does this investment come from?

In developing countries what types of jobs do people do?

Exam questions Outline one reason why the number of jobs in manufacturing has fallen in some countries.(2) What is meant by the term de-industrialisation? (2) Describe the negative impacts of de-industrialisation on the environment.(3)

Create a 2 column table showing how the formal and informal sector differ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6KXU9eL4Y8 p192 Up to 2 mins

Environmental impacts of employment change in Beijing What has caused this?

What is an urban heat island? Why are urban areas warmer than rural areas? In pairs, brainstorm as many reasons as you can

Urban Heat Islands Case Study: Beijing Watch this clip and take notes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY0ukC8zjv8