anti-industrial
Against mass production
Anti-industrial describes opposition to industrialization or industrial society.
The stance may be environmental, aesthetic, or philosophical—rejecting factory production, mass manufacturing, or the values associated with industrial capitalism.
The commune embraced an anti-industrial ethos, growing their own food and making goods by hand.
The term appears in discussions of back-to-the-land movements, primitivism, and critiques of modern technology.
One opposing technological progress
- neo-LudditeOpponent of modern technology
- primitivismIdealization of pre-modern life
- anti-capitalistOpposed to free-market economics
- technophobeOne fearing modern devices
decentralist · agrarianism · sabotage · resistance · commune · collectivist · anti-globalization · localist
Made manually, not machined
- bespokeMade to individual specifications
- craftsmanshipSkill in making objects
- handmadeCreated manually, not mechanically
- small-batchProduced in limited quantities
workshop · maker · artisan · hand-tooled · homespun · hand-forged · localism · guild
Of countryside or clergy care
- bygoneOf earlier times
- pre-modernBefore contemporary times
- agrarianRelating to land cultivation
- bucolicIdyllically rural
old-world · horse-drawn · candlelit · heritage · ancestral · time-honored · folk-tradition · watermill
Preventing waste or loss
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- ecologyStudy of environmental relations
- reforestationReplanting depleted woodlands
greenbelt · pristine · untouched · degrowth · rewilding · anti-fracking · chemical-free
Capable of restoration
- off-gridWithout utility connections
- low-impactMinimally stressful on body
- organicFrom living matter
- permacultureSustainable ecosystem design method
self-sufficient · solar · decentralized · zero-waste · back-to-land · homesteading · regenerative · cooperative
Luddite
One opposing technological progress
- neo-LudditeOpponent of modern technology
- primitivismIdealization of pre-modern life
- anti-capitalistOpposed to free-market economics
technophobe · decentralist · agrarianism · sabotage · resistance · commune · collectivist · anti-globalization · localist
handcrafted
Made manually, not machined
- bespokeMade to individual specifications
- craftsmanshipSkill in making objects
- handmadeCreated manually, not mechanically
small-batch · workshop · maker · artisan · hand-tooled · homespun · hand-forged · localism · guild · apprenticeship
pastoral
Of countryside or clergy care
- bygoneOf earlier times
- pre-modernBefore contemporary times
- agrarianRelating to land cultivation
bucolic · old-world · horse-drawn · candlelit · heritage · ancestral · time-honored · folk-tradition · watermill · windmill
conservation
Preventing waste or loss
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- ecologyStudy of environmental relations
reforestation · greenbelt · pristine · untouched · degrowth · rewilding · anti-fracking · chemical-free
renewable
Capable of restoration
- off-gridWithout utility connections
- low-impactMinimally stressful on body
- organicFrom living matter
permaculture · self-sufficient · solar · decentralized · zero-waste · back-to-land · homesteading · regenerative · cooperative
- anti-modernismLuddism, Luddite, technophobia, technophobe, anti-technology
- primitivismprimitivism, tribal art, indigenous art, naive art, outsider art
anti-industrialindustrialist
Major manufacturing business owner
industrial · industrialized · modernizing · business-friendly
anti-industrialcapitalist
Private ownership supporter
technocratic · modernist · industrializing · progressivist · futurist
industry, industrial, industrious, industrialist, industrialize, industrially, industrialism, nonindustrial, deindustrialization