industrializes

Develops manufacturing capacity

Industrializes means to develop industries on a large scale, typically transforming an economy from agricultural to manufacturing-based.

A country industrializes when it builds factories, infrastructure, and systems for mass production: China industrialized rapidly in the late twentieth century.

The term can also describe making a specific sector more mechanized or efficient: The company industrialized its food production.

mechanization

automation

Self-operating system design

mass production · conveyor · robotics · manufacturing · looms · spindle · lathe · milling · CNC · production line

economic

growth

Increase in size

output · capital · investment · exports · GDP · prosperity · trade · commodities · raw materials · markets

labor

workforce

All available workers

shifts · overtime · strike · exploitation · child labor · sweatshop · proletariat · factory workers · assembly · migration

urbanization

factories

Industrial production facilities

slum · pollution · smog · migration · infrastructure · sprawl · density · sewage · commute · company town

Opposites
economic development trajectory

industrializesdeindustrializes

Reduces factory-based economy

regresses · rust-belts · stagnates · declines · hollows out

societal complexity

industrializessimplifies

Makes less complex

decentralizes · back-to-the-land · agrarianism · rustication

Family

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