Postwar boom industries concentrated in a few grand production regions

Evidence

The postwar period saw the rise of a series of industries based on technologies that had matured in the inter-war years and been pushed to new extremes of rationalization in World War II. Cars, ship­ building, and transport equipment, steel, petrochemicals, rubber, consumer electrical goods, and construction became the propulsive engines of economic growth, focused on a series of grand production regions in the world economy - the Midwest of the United States, the Ruhr-Rhinelands, the West Midlands of Britain, the Tokyo­ Yokohama production region. The privileged workforces in these regions formed one pillar of a rapidly expanding effective demand. The other pillar rested on state-sponsored reconstruction of war­ torn economies, suburbanization particularly in the United States, urban renewal, geographical expansion of transport and communi­ cations systems, and infra structural development both within and outside the advanced capitalist world. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 790

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Jameson’s periodization of late capitalism and Harvey’s own geography of uneven development argument. — connects to: U.S. base construction produced local economic booms in host regions. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 126; Unexplained boom phenomena recur independently at scattered sites worldwide. — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 688; Deindustrialized regions supply surplus labor at lower wages to late capitalism — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 286 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• U.S. base construction produced local economic booms in host regions. #exemplifies (0.80) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 126
• Unexplained boom phenomena recur independently at scattered sites worldwide. #qualifies (0.75) — Eric J. Heller, Why You Hear What You Hear- An…, 688
• Deindustrialized regions supply surplus labor at lower wages to late capitalism #qualifies (0.75) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 286