Ch. 5 The North American Manufacturing Core

Monterey, California is unfortunately not a part of the North American Manufacturing Core. The Manufacturing Core resides in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and parts of Virginia and West Virginia.

Chapter 5 talks mainly of the Manufacturing Core, but does mention that manufacturing is found west of the Mississippi River such as California's Silicon Valley, which is about an hour and a half from Monterey. Silicon Valley plays a big role in the technology world. It is home to many of the world's biggest technology corporations like Apple, Adobe Systems, Google, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and many more.

Silicon Valley got its name from the large number of silicon chip manufacturers that were present there. Many parts of a computer, like the motherboard and a lot of its components contained silicon.

Although it doesn't go into detail in Chapter 5, the manufacturing that occurs in Silicon Valley is comparable to the Manufacturing Core. Different things are being manufactured like iron and steel in the Manufacturing Core, and technological devices in Silicon Valley, but it is all for the same reason. Things are being produced to create revenue for the companies and to cater to what the consumers want.