How to Use deindustrialization in a Sentence

deindustrialization

noun

• But some of the same forces that had led to low wages are now contributing to the problem of deindustrialization.
  — K.n.c., The Economist, 8 July 2019
• The first was overall deindustrialization, which closed factories in Ivry-sur-Seine and the rest of the Red Belt.
  — New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
• Like many other towns in the North, it has been battered by deindustrialization, and thousands of jobs were lost when the steel complex closed in 2015.
  — New York Times, 2 Oct. 2021
• The question is whether the current pain is temporary, or marks the start of a new era of deindustrialization in Europe.
  — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
• Once a vibrant port, the eastern French city of Nantes fell into decline in the wake of deindustrialization.
  — Sarah Moroz, Vogue, 18 July 2017
• With the deindustrialization of the Rust Belt cities, an ugly chain reaction was set off.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 May 2021
• On one side are the blue-collar victims of deindustrialization who, as in 2016, voted for Donald Trump.
  — Michele Zanini, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2020
• In Kevin and Derrick’s account, the legacy of deindustrialization has been far less severe—thanks to the pensions that mine workers were able to secure.
  — Samuel Earle, New Republic, 6 June 2017
• Eventually, white flight and the postwar deindustrialization of vast swaths of L.A. left Watts in economic isolation from the rest of the city.
  — Scott Garner, latimes.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• This could also force more deindustrialization in the U.S.
  — Dan Blumenthal, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2022
• The economic impact of drug use on the workforce is being felt across the country, and perhaps nowhere more than in this region, which is struggling to overcome decades of deindustrialization.
  — Nelson D. Schwartz, The Seattle Times, 28 July 2017
• Ohio went twice for Obama, and then twice for Trump: a formerly purple state that has reddened on account of deindustrialization.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2022
• That’s a play, by Dominique Morisseau, that treats a similar subject (the effects of deindustrialization on workers) in what felt to me like a much more theatrical way.
  — Ben Brantley and Jesse Green, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• In 1970, the Great Migration drew to a close as deindustrialization took hold, leading to the end of Black manufacturing jobs that would never return.
  — Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
• Rather than address the myriad crises that followed in the wake of deindustrialization, a generation of politicians (from both sides of the aisle) turned instead to the shiny ideal of entrepreneurship.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
• The decision sparked a massive wave of deindustrialization across the Midwest.
  — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2020
• For the past few decades, this kind of story—of invention, globalization, and deindustrialization—has been part of the background hum of the American economy.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 June 2021
• In recent decades, the area has suffered from deindustrialization.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2022
• But the topics that dominated his trip on Monday — the impact of deindustrialization and high poverty — have been central for both for Le Pen and Mélenchon.
  — Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2022
• Pittsburgh, where Biden announced the plan, is in fact a classic real-life example of where care workers have already acted as the shock absorbers of deindustrialization.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2021
• Ms. Nottage’s play explores working-class alienation in Reading, Pa., a city that has been hurt by deindustrialization.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
• But the mine closed in 1993, amid a wider process of deindustrialization and privatization carried out by the same Conservative Party that Mr. Johnson now leads.
  — New York Times, 7 Dec. 2019
• Winant also recounts how deindustrialization destroyed the union jobs that came with good health insurance.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
• Skeleton Crew is part of a nascent body of work commenting on America’s deindustrialization.
  — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
• Le Pen, like Trump, is working to run up the score in rural areas (including the south and northeast), where deindustrialization has allowed her National Front to pour gasoline on the fire of xenophobia and nativism.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 5 May 2017
• Its economic decline started in the 1970s, when businesses began moving out as part of the broader deindustrialization of the region.
  — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 9 June 2021
• One popular theory for the loss of good jobs is deindustrialization, which caused the shuttering of factories and the hollowing out of communities that had sprung up around them.
  — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Bear in mind that LaRouche was recruiting at a time of rapid deindustrialization and financialization across the United States; worker power was being crushed.
  — Tommy Craggs, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
• Once Europe’s second-largest industrial hub, the area saw a rapid deindustrialization in the 1970s that turned factories into corporate headquarters, and a power plant into a film studio complex.
  — Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
• Detroit became synonymous with the consequences of deindustrialization, its urban core pockmarked by abandonment.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024