Deindustrialization in the Midwest

The American midwest was one of the hardest hit regions in the United States. Because of the changing political and geopolitical situation, manufacturing during the 1970s and 1980s, more and more companies were moving overseas. As a result, Between 1967 and 1987, the manufacturing sector declined by 64% in Philadelphia, 60% in Chicago, 58% in New York and 51% in Detroit. Philadelphia lost 160,000 jobs, Chicago, 326,000, New York over 500,000 and Detroit 108,000 jobs. To make things worse firms moved their job sites to places far away from American metropolitan areas.

Source: Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America, Joe Trotter