industrial growth
Manufacturing sector increase
Industrial growth is the expansion of manufacturing, production, and industrial output within an economy.
The term typically refers to increases in factory production, employment in manufacturing sectors, and the overall scale of industrial activity: The region experienced rapid industrial growth after the railroad arrived.
Industrial growth often serves as a key economic indicator, though it may carry environmental costs.
- GDPNational output abbreviation
- automationSelf-operating system design
- job creationEstablishing new work positions
- productivityOutput relative to input
- urbanizationPopulation shift toward cities
mass production · pollution · smokestacks · capital · robotics · steel manufacturing · mechanization · labor market · blue collar · mills · investment · sustainability · smoke and mirrors · assembly line · Gilded Age · trade · machinery · supply chain
- growthgrow, growing, increase, increasing, expansion
- industryfactories, factory, automotive, manufacturing plant, manufacturing plants
- Modern JapanTokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hirohito, economic miracle
- Second EmpireNapoleon III, Second Empire, coup d'etat, Bonapartists, authoritarian rule
- postwar GermanyWest Germany, East Germany, divided Germany, Iron Curtain, Federal Republic
- postwar economicsMarshall Plan, economic recovery, currency reform, Wirtschaftswunder, recovery programs
industrial growthindustrial decline
Shrinking of manufacturing activity
deindustrialization · economic decline · economic contraction · manufacturing decline · factory closures
industrial growthagrarian economy
Agriculture-dominated financial structure
agricultural society · subsistence farming · feudal economy · rural development · service economy