1. The impacts of employment change between urban and rural

2. 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

3. What does Deindustrialisation mean? What is Industrialisation?

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

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

6. 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

7. Before
After
Mexico
Germany
What has happened to Glasgow?
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Comment on the issues

8. 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?
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9. Maquiladoras assemble or process goods imported from the USA and then re-export them back to the USA duty free.

10. 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?

11. What NICs can you name?

12. 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?
South Africa
These countries may not match those of developed nations
but they are well ahead of developing countries

13. Common features of NIC’s

14. 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?

15. In developing countries what types of jobs do people do?

16. 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)

17. Create a 2 column table showing how the formal and informal sector differ
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18. Environmental impacts of employment change in Beijing
What has caused this?

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

20. Urban Heat Islands Case Study: Beijing
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