1. Workers are again pushed and pulled to new jobs in new places…
Work In the 21st Century
Workers are again pushed and pulled to new jobs in new places…

2. Why do jobs leave Michigan?
Goods (like automobiles) are being produced elsewhere.
These goods are selling well in the United States and worldwide.

3. Why produce elsewhere? Avoid rules about work, set by unions
Avoid taxes and rules about work and pollution, set by the government
Want people around the world to buy cars
Don’t want to ship cars around the world
And want people to have jobs so they can buy cars
So move factories closer to these new markets

4. From the Collections of The Henry Ford, ID# THF73709
Globalization
Global competition
For products: Americans import better or cheaper products from other countries
For jobs: Outsourcing of jobs to countries where work rules are more flexible & labor is cheaper
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From the Collections of The Henry Ford, ID# THF73709

5. Rust Belt to Sun Belt Migration
Outsourcing of jobs to areas where labor is cheaper and more flexible
Jobs are moving so people are moving
Image Source: The Growth and Distribution of American Cities: 1790 to U.S. Census Bureau. Available via

6. Rust Belt to Sun Belt Migration
Image Source: The Growth and Distribution of American Cities: 1790 to U.S. Census Bureau. Available via