Definition of "industrialism" [in•dus•tri•al•ism]

• An economic and social system based on the development of large-scale industries and marked by the production of large quantities of inexpensive manufactured goods and the concentration of employment in urban factories. (noun)

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• "But in any case, though the ugliness of industrialism is the most obvious thing about it and the thing every newcomer exclaims against, I doubt whether it is centrally important."
• "But what is known as industrialism brought in its train fear and favour, privilege and poverty, slums, disease, and municipal vice, fostered a too rapid immigration, established in America a tenant system alien to our traditions."
• "The acceptable side of industrialism, which is supposed to be inspired exclusively by utility, is not utility at all but pure achievement."