Definition of "deindustrialization" [deindustrialization]

• The loss or deprivation of industrial capacity or strength (noun)

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• "DH: There had been, during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a steady process of deindustrialization, that is, the loss of manufacturing jobs."
• "Manufacturing was hit especially hard: From 2001 to 2004, manufacturing lost more jobs than during the entire "deindustrialization" years from the late 1970s through the 1980s, and those losses continued throughout the entire 2002-2007 expansion."
• "Politicians tend to equate unemployment with "deindustrialization," as they respond to unemployed steel-workers marching across the television screen."