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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
industrialization
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ Moreover, in most respects the pattern of growth was not far out of line with that of early industrialization in western industrialized countries.
▪ As in the West, the early stages of industrialization were accompanied by harsh working and living conditions.
rapid
▪ This period of the second industrial revolution is marked especially as a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization.
▪ But the 1870s were not the 1370s, and amid rapid industrialization, apprenticeship was nothing like it once was.
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▪ As in the West, the early stages of industrialization were accompanied by harsh working and living conditions.
▪ Conditions would become more conducive to entrepreneurial initiative, capital accumulation, the division of labour, technological innovation, and industrialization.
▪ Modernization and industrialization have contributed to later marriages, for example, as have improvements in educational and employment opportunities for women.
▪ Nevertheless, the trend towards standardization could be discerned in countries where industrialization had gone furthest.
▪ Not until the years of fast industrialization and construction were these defects to be remedied.
▪ There can be economic pressures such as industrialization that cause rural to urban movement.
▪ They are bound to increase even more as industrialization grows.
▪ Were they talking about the increasing industrialization of the times?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
industrialization

1883, from industrialize + -ation.

Wiktionary
industrialization

n. a process of social and economic change whereby a human society is transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial state

WordNet
industrialization

n. the development of industry on an extensive scale [syn: industrialisation, industrial enterprise]

Usage examples of "industrialization".

In volume 2, the correlations between the emergence of egoic-rationality and industrialization are traced.

Their existence as a movement depends upon industrialization, the same industrialization that they must aggressively condemn as leading to the despoliation of Gaia.

They came from industrialization and commerce, the growth of populations, of railroads and cities, the rise in value of land, and the greed of businessmen.

In subsequent volumes, I trace a large part of this dissociation and resultant emphasis on the Big One (of instrumental/objectivistic rationality) to the strong influence of the techno-economic base of industrialization and the machine mentality (which is similar to, but not quite the same as, the more common analysis that traces it to capitalism): the techno-economic base supported instrumental-purposive activities, and in a way all out of proportion to the instrumental-purposive rationality that did in fact build it: a positive feedback loop that sent calculative rationality spinning out of control, precisely in the avowed purpose of gaining control.

Basic industrialization had been completed, the world was tamed, and people were looking for new ways of channelling their energies.

Furthermore, the per capita income in Baraza was still only sixty dollars a year, and industrialization had hardly begun.

Stories led to politics, and McFee expounded his notion of the "only possible solution" to the European questions, a solution predicated on a complicated theory of McFee's as to why the Covenant could not be extended to any culture below a certain level of industrialization.

Industrialization and agricultural recovery were far more pressing concerns than the doubtful proprietary rights of either the Moslem nomads or the Sambusai pastoralists who often used this land.

They knew that the Meiji oligarchy, which propounded industrialization, would need economic expansion in order to fuel this.

We saw the paradox most vividly acted out in Iran - fabulous wealth, rapid mindless industrialization, the growth of the most vulgar and seductive of Western values, all coming smack up against the rock of Islam, which promised purity, a return to the strict values of the family, the simple life, and a selfless devotion to Allah.