reindustrialization

Manufacturing sector restoration

Reindustrialization is the process of rebuilding or reviving manufacturing capacity in a region or country where it has declined.

The term often appears in economic policy discussions about restoring industrial jobs lost to globalization or automation: The senator campaigned on reindustrialization of the Rust Belt.

It implies reversing deindustrialization—bringing factories and production back to places that once had them.

employment

workforce

All available workers

  • jobsPositions of employment
  • laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
  • hiringGiving someone work

wages · blue-collar · job creation · apprenticeships · vocational training · skilled trades · trade unions · employment rate · career opportunities · job market

manufacturing

factory

Industrial production facility

machinery · plant · foundry · steelworks · mill · forge · smelting · metallurgy · textiles · pharmaceuticals

policy

investment

Deploying capital for returns

trade policy · tax incentives · economic nationalism · protectionism · national security · self-sufficiency · import substitution · government intervention · regulatory reform

technology

automation

Self-operating system design

machine learning · artificial intelligence · digital twin · cleantech · sustainable energy · sensors

transformation

revitalization

Restoring vigor or vitality

scaling · efficiency · integration · standardization · restructuring · rebuilding · recovery · regeneration

urban

brownfields

Polluted ex-industrial land

warehouse conversion · mixed-use · economic development · Detroit · Pittsburgh

Opposites
industrial trajectory

reindustrializationdeindustrialization

Loss of industrial capacity

industrial decline · factory closures · plant shutdowns

economic strategy

reindustrializationoffshoring

Moving work overseas

deindustrialization · outsourcing · financialization · post-industrialization · capital flight

Family

industry, industrial, industrious, industrialist, industrialization, industrialize, industrialism, deindustrialization, deindustrialize

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