Industrialisation

prefLabel
  • industrialisation
definition
  • The process whereby manufacturing industry comes to occupy the predominant position in a national or regional economy.
inScheme
broader
Abstract from DBPedia
    Industrialisation (alternatively spelled industrialization) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. This involves an extensive re-organisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing. Historically industrialization is associated with increase of polluting industries heavily dependent on fossil fuels. With the increasing focus on sustainable development and green industrial policy practices, industrialization increasingly includes technological leapfrogging, with direct investment in more advanced, cleaner technologies. The reorganization of the economy has many unintended consequences both economically and socially. As industrial workers' incomes rise, markets for consumer goods and services of all kinds tend to expand and provide a further stimulus to industrial investment and economic growth. Moreover, family structures tend to shift as extended families tend to no longer live together in one household, location or place.

    工業化(こうぎょうか、industrialization)またはインダストリアリゼーションとは、農業中心の社会から工業中心の社会へと移り変わること。18世紀半ばのイギリスの産業革命に端を発し、現在に至るまで続く、農耕社会から産業社会へと変化するプロセスである。産業化の訳語が用いられる場合もある。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Industrialisation)