tral cities to suburbs, but also from manufacturing centers to smaller urban locations scattered throughout the country. While this phenomenon has been occurring, the job opportunities available to central city residents in the older manufacturing centers have declined even if central city residents are willing to travel to the suburbs to work, because the job opportunities, rather than being 10 to 20 miles distant are now 500 to a 1,000 miles distant.
Some shift in the type of manufacturing has occurred, and this shift is relevant. The Fusfeld and Bates assessment remains valid; however, because the problem cannot be explained simply as a shift in the type of manufacturing.
Other factors that corporate strategies have contributed to the shift of manufacturing away from central city manufacturing centers and to changes in the structure of manufacturing. In each instance, the job opportunities available to central city resi
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