0 the idea or state of having a country's economy, society, or political system based on industry --
1 the idea or system of having a country's or society's economy based on industry: --
The dereliction and social deprivation which are a legacy of 19th century industrialism have needed to be tackled, and they have been tackled.
Universalistic theories such as industrialism, evolutionary theory of economics, and contingency theory assume a common dynamic towards a convergence of societies through a series of historical stages of development.
To act as the voice of manufacturing in an agrarian society deeply suspicious of the city and hostile to the goals of industrialism was a daunting prospect.
In this respect he was a strict historical materialist: nationalist politics is the superstructural by-product of cultural fissures that are in turn shaped by the uneven diffusion of industrialism.
Craik uses the pastoral discourse in order to explore the complexities of industrialism.
It represents long-important if growing commerce as much as new-era industrialism and, being wooden, not the latest in high-tech metallurgical machining.
What one must ask is whether inquiries of this type have as much relevance for the early modern period as they do for modern industrialism.
The approach advanced here for the rise of early industrialism, therefore, may be called geocultural, the proper values or ethos combined with sufficiently benign geography.
