postindustrial economy

Cultural  

1. A phrase that describes the shift of some major industrial economies in the late twentieth century away from producing goods and toward producing services.

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Example Sentences

As Jake Blumgart writes, “Atlantic City essentially postponed its region’s reckoning with the postindustrial economy for 30 years.”

From Slate

The 45-acre industrial site on Indianapolis’s west side was marooned between symbols of the postindustrial economy, warehouses belonging to retailers Target and Amazon.

From Washington Post

They were seething with anger: at immigrants, at Britain’s postindustrial economy and at the constant gaze of the country’s news media and political elite in the south, toward London.

From New York Times

The big, longstanding parties of the left started vanishing from Europe years ago as class alliances faded in a postindustrial economy.

From New York Times

But in Baltimore’s postindustrial economy, the jobs are in demand.

From New York Times