postindustrial

Examples

• All

• Large and growing investment in the service sector reflects the worldwide trend toward postindustrial economies in the information age.

  Academic text (2000)

• After the creation of OLR, the Butte community emerged with a new confidence in its ability to survive in the postindustrial age.

  Academic text (2016)

• The United States and the United Kingdom, on the other hand, happily embraced the transition to the postindustrial service economy.

  Academic text (2012)

• Understanding the new boundaries of belonging in our new postindustrial world order is part of the purpose of this essay.

  Academic text (2000)

• We are currently shifting from an industrial to a postindustrial, globalized "knowledge economy."

  Academic text (2008)

• Today, very few states can successfully resist the pressures of postindustrial capitalism.

  Academic text (1996)

• The shift from survival to self-expression values is linked to the rise of postindustrial societies.

  Academic text (2009)

• But the emergence of postindustrial society brings certain social and cultural changes that are specifically conducive to democratization.

  Academic text (2009)

• A hundred years ago, New York's expanding industrial economy was churning out jobs; in today's postindustrial economy, there is no similar kind of growth.

  Academic text (2002)

• Many cities are transforming as they adapt to the challenges of a postindustrial economy, emphasizing technology and services over manufacturing.

Antonyms

P

preindustrial

1 5.3

Relating to the time before people used machines or factories to make goods

How Industrial

industrialized

20 4.0

industrial

520 3.2

postindustrial

• Specialized

1 6.8

preindustrial

1 5.3

agrarian

13 6.5

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Etymology