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an unemployment rate as high as 20 per cent during the past year./Why? Because several local industries either closed down or moved away. What are the leaders of opinion in this community calling for, by way of solution? Why, more industry, of course. Things have gone sour, but never mind; they’ll sweeten up if we just take more of the same old medicine.
IN another county not far from the Northern Piedmont, over in the Valley, another high rate of unemployment has been experienced. There, too, the cry is for more industrial development — even though a district-wide survey shows that as many as onefifth of workers in the area are commuting long distances to jobs, either out of the county or from areas outside the county, and this despite what is one of the largest concentrations of industrial jobs in all of Northern Virginia.
What’s going on here? Are we missing some basic point about industrialization? Is there really some rhyme and reason in all of this long distance commuting and conversion of farmland into temporary industries? If industrialization of once rural counties is such a desirable goal, then why are the ones which have managed the switch hurting so much? \
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