Commentary: INDUSTRIALIZATION[+event] The act of becoming industrialized or making something industrialized. Can apply to a society as a whole, or to a specific section of a society.
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England was the first nation to experience industrialization.
The industrialization of agriculture left a lot of people unemployed.
I'm studying the process of industrialization in Europe.
Josef Stalin's forced industrialization of the Soviet Union was, to put it lightly, a mixed blessing.
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