The Curriculum
Map Layers for the Investigation Documents for the Investigation


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The Curriculum

This curriculum will examine the years between 1940 and 2000, concentrating on urban counties that contain rust belt cities such as Chicago, and Detroit, as well as sunbelt cities like LA and Houston.  Students will consider the relationship between industrial jobs and economic health, the correlation of job growth and loss with rates of unionization, and connections between job loss and mobility, poverty, crime, gang membership, pollution, and/or environmental contamination.   

Learning objectives:

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Map Layers for the Investigation

To download the interactive map layers for this unit, right click on the following ZipFile and save the link target to your desktop.  Coming Soon...
        In order to open the zip file, you will need to download WinZip.
        In order to view the interactive map layers, you will need to download My World.
If you do not want to make any downloads at this time, click here to see a series of static map images from various stages of the inquiry project.  Coming Soon...

The following is a list of the various data layers included in the interactive maps for this unit. 
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Documents for the Investigation

America’s Changing Economic Landscape, by James Fallows

Primary sources from http://www.gangnet.org (problematic link)

AFLCIO: A Hundred Years of Struggle
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/history/history/100years.cfm

How Milwaukee Boomed but Left Its Blacks Behind, by Isabel Wilkerson.

Jimmy Morse, interview, in The Common Interest, by Leslie W. Dunbar

Origins of the Urban Crises, by Thomas Sugrue

The Origins of the Underclass, by Nicholas Lemann

Post-war Development in New York and Los Angeles: Surprising findings using GIS techniques.  By Andrew A. Beveridge.
http://www.uic.edu/educ/bctpi/historytech/beveridgePostWarNewYork.pdf

Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/

Statistical Abstract of the US
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html