deindustrialization

/ ˌdiːɪnˌdʌstrɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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

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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.

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They represent the people left behind by deindustrialization and the disappearance or automation of the dirty, distasteful jobs that were the backbone of the U.S. economy.

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And the early stages of American deindustrialization were already underway: Jobs were starting to vanish.

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