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deindustrialization

British  
/ ˌdiːɪnˌdʌstrɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən /

noun

  1. the decline in importance of manufacturing industry in the economy of a nation or area

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New England experienced America’s first deindustrialization.

From The Wall Street Journal

Still, risks include tariffs, EU deindustrialization and an aggressive expansion in China that could squeeze margins, the analysts add.

From The Wall Street Journal

What I mean is income inequality, deindustrialization, enshittification, institutional cowardice; put the Latinx stuff in there if you want, and then please stop bringing it up, there are more important things happening.

From Slate

One influential theory focuses on deindustrialization and the way that Americans without a college degree in particular have been left behind.

From Slate

Like other military veterans of the First Iraq War, McVeigh did not believe that the U.S. should become entangled in foreign wars at a time when his white-working class buddies back in Buffalo, NY, were suffering from the earliest waves of deindustrialization in America.

From Salon