industrialism
Mass production system
Industrialism is an economic and social system built on large-scale manufacturing, mechanized production, and factory labor.
The term typically describes the transformation that began in 18th-century Britain and spread globally—replacing agrarian economies with ones centered on mills, mines, and mass production.
The social upheavals of industrialism reshaped entire populations.
Programmable mechanical agents
- conveyorMechanism that transports items
- sensorsDevices that detect input
- programmingWriting software instructions
- efficiencyProductive without waste
machinery · algorithm · cybernetics · robotics · mechanization · computerization · deskilling · technocracy
Industrial production facility
- assemblyConstructing from components
- productionMaking or generating something
- mass-productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
mill · plant · foundry · forge · workshop · machinery · conveyor · textiles
Of a prim era
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- coalCombustible sedimentary rock
- ironElement twenty-six
- railroadsTrain transportation systems
factories · telegraph · locomotive · innovation · smog · workhouses · Luddites · canals
Private profit-based economy
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- tradeExchange of commodities
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
- monopolyOne seller, no substitutes
oligopoly · supply · demand · tariff · import · export · mercantilism · protectionism
Movement toward improvement
- modernizationAdoption of current methods
- growthIncrease in size
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- advancementForward movement or promotion
productivity · efficiency · expansion · prosperity · materialism · utilitarianism · critique · alienation
Large important city
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- sprawlExtend in disorderly fashion
- tenementMulti-unit urban dwelling
- zoningSectioning areas by use
cityscape · congestion · pollution · migration · slums · overcrowding · sanitation · smokestacks
robots
Programmable mechanical agents
- conveyorMechanism that transports items
- sensorsDevices that detect input
- programmingWriting software instructions
efficiency · machinery · algorithm · cybernetics · robotics · mechanization · computerization · deskilling · technocracy · productivity
factory
Industrial production facility
- assemblyConstructing from components
- productionMaking or generating something
- mass-productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
fabrication · mill · plant · foundry · forge · workshop · machinery · conveyor · textiles · metallurgy
Victorian
Of a prim era
railroads · factories · telegraph · locomotive · innovation · smog · workhouses · Luddites · canals · tenements
capitalism
Private profit-based economy
- free-marketUnregulated private exchange
- tradeExchange of commodities
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
monopoly · oligopoly · supply · demand · tariff · import · export · mercantilism · protectionism · laissez-faire
progress
Movement toward improvement
- modernizationAdoption of current methods
- growthIncrease in size
- developmentProgress toward maturity
advancement · productivity · efficiency · expansion · prosperity · materialism · utilitarianism · critique · alienation · dehumanization
metropolis
Large important city
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- sprawlExtend in disorderly fashion
- tenementMulti-unit urban dwelling
zoning · cityscape · congestion · pollution · migration · slums · overcrowding · sanitation · smokestacks · working-class
- Victorian IdeasVictorianism, Darwinism, social Darwinism, evolution, natural selection
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
- sociologysocial structure, social class, social institutions, social norms, social mobility
- economic systemscapitalism, mercantilism, communism, feudalism, socialism
- literary conceptsromanticism, realism, modernism, symbolism, aestheticism
- D.H. LawrenceSons and Lovers, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Nottingham
industrialismagrarianism
Doctrine valuing farm life
pastoralism · agriculture · feudalism · subsistence farming · nomadism
industrialismenvironmentalism
Advocacy for nature protection
primitivism · naturalism · Luddism · pastoralism · biocentrism
industrialismruralism
Embrace of country life
agrarianism · primitivism · traditionalism · anti-modernism · Luddism
industrialist, industrialized, industrialization, industrialize, industrialists, industrializing, industrializes, deindustrialization, deindustrialize