Edexcel Geography A Level Globalisation

1. Winners and losers

2. What does this picture show? Can you write a definition?

3. Steel production comes to halt in Redcar, Teeside
after nearly 100 years…
produce a mind map of the ways in which the economy, society and environment
may be affected by deindustrialisation.
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4. Did you consider the following?
Social: depopulation, deprivation, crime
Environmental: dereliction and contamination
Economic: unemployment and deprivation

5. The deindustrialisation of Redcar resulted in
economic losses, including….
• According to an analysis of official figures published by the House of Commons library,
unemployment in the Redcar constituency has jumped by 16.2% in the last year - the
seventh highest increase of 650 constituencies in the UK.
• The research found 2,739 people were claiming unemployment benefit in February this
year - up 382 people on the same month the previous year - giving the constituency an
unemployment rate of 7%, the tenth highest in the UK.
• The knock-on effects in Redcar have gone beyond the 2,200 job losses at the plant. An
estimated 900 jobs in the supply chain have also been wiped out, with everyone from
child-minders to dock workers hit.
• Steel and iron are a basic commodity of most manufacturing processes. To not have it
locally sourced within the UK and to be constantly requiring it to be imported makes the
UK a weaker economic force.

6. Social deprivation as a result……..
• Redcar is described by local people as a “Ghost town”.
• Redcar’s charity shop-filled high street is already depressed; now even the
charity shops are struggling.
• Steelworkers’ skills, built up over a long period in challenging conditions,
are not easily transferable. A production operator who was on £31,000 is
looking at a job doing general factory work at somewhere between
£17,000 and £22,000.
• Young men are tired of part-time work and zero hour contracts and
consequently some turn to the black market to try and make some money.

7. Environmental concerns after the closure of
Redcar’s steel industry…
• No land has yet been formally designated as contaminated land
within Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, however, the scar of
inactivity weighs heavily on a local community struggling to come to
terms with such devastating job losses.

8. https://census.uk.dataservice.ac.uk/get-data/related/deprivation

10. Plenary:
What does the cycle of deprivation look like, as
deindustrialisation takes place, use Fig.13.3 in your
text book.

11. Homework:
‘The costs outweigh the benefits of growth’ Discuss.
(no more than 400 words)