pre-industrial
Pre-mechanization era society
Pre-industrial describes societies, economies, or time periods before the development of large-scale manufacturing and mechanized production—roughly before the late 18th century in the West.
Pre-industrial Europe relied on manual labor and animal power.
The term often implies simpler technology, agrarian economies, and smaller population centers.
Land-for-service social structure
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
- empireDomain under unified control
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
colonialism · exploration · manuscripts · parchment · heraldry · galleon · caravel · barter
feudalism
Land-for-service social structure
serfdom · colonialism · exploration · manuscripts · parchment · heraldry · galleon · caravel · barter · chivalry
artisan
Skilled manual tradesperson
- handmadeCreated manually, not mechanically
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
- blacksmithIron-shaping craftsperson
weaver · carpenter · pottery · tanner · cobbler · loom · wheelwright · cooper · forging · tailoring
subsistence
Minimal means of living
threshing · oxen · windmill · watermill · granary · commons · husbandry · scythe · sickle · fallow
- economiesmarket economy, command economy, mixed economy, barter economy, cash economy
- preindustrialguild, agrarian, pastoral, craftsman, rural
- anti-modernismLuddism, Luddite, technophobia, technophobe, anti-technology
- ancientantiquity, archaic, classical, medieval, Middle Ages
- vintagevintage, antique, retro, old-fashioned, nostalgic
- tech erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, information age, digital age
pre-industrialindustrial
Of factories and production
industrialized · post-industrial · mechanized · automated · mass-production
pre-industrialpost-industrial
After manufacturing's dominance
contemporary · twentieth-century · modern · modern era · industrial revolution