Talk:Deindustrialization

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Contents 1 Development of the article 2 References 3 Experience of Deindustrialization in OECD economies during the Twentieth Century 4 Possible systematic synthesis/OR by several users

[edit] Development of the article

I've made a start on some of what I see as the appropriate headings, but don't quite have the stomach to give it my best shot at the whole thing in one go! Will do it bit by bit (in no particular order of importance). This is probably a better way to go aboout it anyway, allowing others to contribute their ideas as we go along. --Nmcmurdo 20:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

I find the refereneces tag a bit odd - a lot of this stuff is well-referenced! It would be too cumbersome to reference widely accepted facts (such as the fall in manufacturing's enployment share across OECD countries)--Nmcmurdo 00:57, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Experience of Deindustrialization in OECD economies during the Twentieth Century

I deleted this section pending some clearer explanation of this crucial phenomenon. First of all, using the Twentieth Century as the temporal scope is silly. Mass production manufacturing didn't really become a major economic force until Ford's auto plants, so it isn't reasonable to compare manufacturing output at the start of the twentieth century with manufacturing output at the end of the twentieth century. Most commentators on deindustrialization refer to a phenomenon occurring during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Secondly, the kind of deindustrialization referenced should make use of the distinction between the 4 definitions provided at the start of the article. If OECD economies have, in the last 3 decades of the twentieth century, actually increased their per capita, inflation-adjusted manufacturing output, then just come out and say it and point to the prior definition of "deindustrialization" that matches a per capita, inflation-adjusted growth of manufacturing output.Jim Bowery 17:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible systematic synthesis/OR by several users

It appears Piotrus (talk · contribs) has been using this article for a university experiment/project or something similar. Much of the text from the students he apparently directs sounds like a university essay where they are encouraged to make analysis of data.

For example "Because of its increased production rates in industry, it can be ascertained that deindustrialization has not occurred in Sweden." or "At first glance, these ups and downs could be interpreted as a product of deindustrialization, but after interpreting the available data, we see that Germany is simply evolving while dealing with its difficult past." or "Overall, Italy does not seem to be deindustrializing" etc etc.

Or take Piotrus comment to one of the students: "You may also want to indicate you have used OECD (2008) data for the rest of your analysis." [1]

I'm afraid the article will require careful review of the sources to ascertain what conclusions are actually supported by the sources, and what conclusions are synthesis done by Piotrus students using data from the sources.--Stor stark7 ^Talk 16:36, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Certainly further rewriting and improvement of the added material is needed. I am looking forward to an expert review of this article one of those days.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:50, 28 March 2008 (UTC)