Winners and losers

What does this picture show? Can you write a definition?

Steel production comes to halt in Redcar, Teeside after nearly 100 years…produce a mind map of the ways in which the economy, society and environment may be affected by deindustrialisation.

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Did you consider the following?Social: depopulation, deprivation, crime

Environmental: dereliction and contamination

Economic: unemployment and deprivation

The deindustrialisation of Redcar resulted in economic losses, including….• According to an analysis of official figures published by the House of Commons library, unemployment

in the Redcar constituency has jumped by 16.2% in the last year - the seventh highest increase of 650 constituencies in the UK.

• The research found 2,739 people were claiming unemployment benefit in February this year - up 382 people on the same month the previous year - giving the constituency an unemployment rate of 7%, the tenth highest in the UK.

• The knock-on effects in Redcar have gone beyond the 2,200 job losses at the plant. An estimated 900 jobs in the supply chain have also been wiped out, with everyone from child-minders to dock workers hit.

• Steel and iron are a basic commodity of most manufacturing processes. To not have it locally sourced within the UK and to be constantly requiring it to be imported makes the UK a weaker economic force.

Social deprivation as a result……..• Redcar is described by local people as a “Ghost town”.

• Redcar’s charity shop-filled high street is already depressed; now even the charity shops are struggling.

• Steelworkers’ skills, built up over a long period in challenging conditions, are not easily transferable. A production operator who was on £31,000 is looking at a job doing general factory work at somewhere between £17,000 and £22,000.

• Young men are tired of part-time work and zero hour contracts and consequently some turn to the black market to try and make some money.

Environmental concerns after the closure of Redcar’s steel industry…• No land has yet been formally designated as contaminated land

within Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, however, the scar of inactivity weighs heavily on a local community struggling to come to terms with such devastating job losses.

https://census.uk.dataservice.ac.uk/get-data/related/deprivation

Plenary:

What does the cycle of deprivation look like, as deindustrialisation takes place, use Fig.13.3 in your text book.

Homework:‘The costs outweigh the benefits of growth’ Discuss.

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