Distressed Communities

Archive Report

Industry Closing and Distresssed Areas

Areas and Numbers Affected by Plant Shutdowns

How to rehabilitate towns or small cities that have lost their principal or only industrial enterprise is a question that is being given increasing consideration on both local and national levels. After arousing concern in the 1930s, when numerous New England textile mills shut down, the problem has gained prominence again in recent months as a result of stepped-up migration of textile manufacture to the South and of threatened or actual closing of various coal mines, steel mills, and other business ventures in small communities over the country.

Some indication of the magnitude of the problem is given by the drop in textile employment in New England—from just over 300,000 persons in 1947 to around ...

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