industrialising

Developing manufacturing capacity

Industrialising is the British spelling of industrializing—the process of developing industries on a wide scale.

A country industrialises when it shifts from agriculture to manufacturing: rapidly industrialising economies in Southeast Asia.

The term often appears in discussions of economic development and environmental impact.

manufacturing

factory

Industrial production facility

steelworks · mill · foundry · forge · ironworks · plant · conveyor · smokestacks · shipyard · loom

resources

coal

Combustible sedimentary rock

  • ironElement twenty-six
  • steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
  • miningExtracting earth's resources

ore · petroleum · timber · cotton · extraction · quarrying · smelting · refining · fuel · coke

labor

workforce

All available workers

wages · shifts · exploitation · proletariat · employment · apprenticeship

technological

mechanization

Converting to machine operation

electricity · robotics · engineering · patents · invention · efficiency · telegraph · locomotives · turbine

urbanization

cities

Major populated areas

  • migrationMovement to new territory
  • housingDwellings or protective covering
  • slumsImpoverished, crowded districts

sanitation · railways · canals · transportation · tenements · metropolis · suburbs · infrastructure · municipal · zoning

Opposites
economic development direction

industrialisingdeindustrialising

Reducing industrial production capacity

deindustrializing · regressing · declining · stagnating

economic base

industrialisingagrarian

Relating to land cultivation

agricultural · pastoral · rural · pre-industrial · feudal

technological progression

industrialisingreverting

Returning to earlier state

artisanal · manual

Family

industry, industrial, industrious, industrialist, industriousness, industrialized, industrialize, industrialists, industrializing

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