industrialism

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a social and economic system based on large-scale mechanized industry rather than chiefly on agriculture or craft production

   Industrialism transformed patterns of work, settlement, and trade across the nineteenth century.

2. 2
   noun

   the policy or doctrine of promoting extensive industrial development

   The government's industrialism favored factories, mines, and railways over rural investment.

Formed in the nineteenth century from industrial and -ism. Industrial derives from industry, through French industrie from Latin industria, 'diligence or purposeful activity'; -ism marks a system, doctrine, or characteristic social order.

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