Industrialism definition

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An economic and social system based on the development of large-scale industries and marked by the production of large quantities of inexpensive manufactured goods and the concentration of employment in urban factories.
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The socio-economic system based upon the industrial production of manufactured goods, rather than on agriculture.
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Social and economic organization characterized by large industries, machine production, concentration of workers in cities, etc.
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Singular:
industrialism
Plural:
industrialisms

Industrialism Sentence Examples

  • These advances in natural science, which pointed to a unity and gradual evolution in nature, were accompanied by a growth in commerce, manufactures and industrialism; the same kind of spirit showed itself in the revolutionary upheaval of 1848, and in the materialistic publications which immediately followed, while these XVIII.

  • It hated and at the same time lauded the growth of modern industrialism and the rise of the cities.

  • It indicts the brutalisation and wastefulness of Victorian industrialism, and envisions the world as it might be.

  • If the gods of german industrialism fall it is because he has known exactly when to trip each of them up.

  • Lee defends a ' strong ' conception of class and calls for greater attention on the integrative role of money in late industrialism.

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