industrialism
pronunciation
How to pronounce industrialism in British English:
UK [ɪnˈdʌstriəlɪzəm]
How to pronounce industrialism in American English:
US [ɪnˈdʌstriəˌlɪzəm]
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- Noun:
- an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship
Word Origin
- industrialism (n.)
- 1831, from industrial + -ism. Compare French industrialisme (Saint-Simon, 1823).
Example
- 1. Industrialism redeemed , technology triumphant : this is the familiar scenario of technophiliac utopianism .
- 2. The dynamic of industrialism changed both the geography of chinese trade and its consequences .
- 3. For the reversionaries , who trace back to john ruskin , william morris , prince kropotkin , and the romantic artists generally , industrialism is the extreme state of a cultural disease that must be cured before it kills us .
- 4. Growing up in post-depression america , they abandoned new york city and moved to the heartland , working for years as welders and union stewards at aluminum foundries and mills , experiencing all the hardship of industrialism at its peak .
- 5. Coal consumption in manchester was measured in millions of tonnes , and its smoke became , as lewis mumford remarked , " the very incense of the new industrialism " .