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Clemente, Frank; Summers, Gene F. – 1973
The impact of a large manufacturing plant on a small village in "middle America" was explored in this paper. Research was conducted in Illinois using Putnam County as an "experimental" region and Iroquois County as a "control." In the spring of 1966, the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation began construction of a…
Descriptors: Age, Community Development, Heads of Households, Income
Beck, E. M.; Madans, J. H. – 1975
In order to determine the effect of rural industrial development in an historically rural area of Illinois, a stratified area probability sample survey of 781 household heads in an area experiencing limited industrial development and of 315 household heads in an area lacking industrial development was conducted in 1966. The results of this survey…
Descriptors: Age, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Economic Change