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 town that has been hit, like so many in the dozen-or-so states that pick our president every four years, by deindustrialization.
    — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2025
  • In recent decades, the area has suffered from deindustrialization.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2022
  • 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
  • With the deindustrialization of the Rust Belt cities, an ugly chain reaction was set off.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 May 2021
  • Winant also recounts how deindustrialization destroyed the union jobs that came with good health insurance.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Once a vibrant port, the eastern French city of Nantes fell into decline in the wake of deindustrialization.
    — Sarah Moroz, Vogue, 18 July 2017
  • Reuther’s advocacy illuminates how free trade wasn’t the villain in the story of deindustrialization that it has long been made out to be.
    — Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The area is a historic textile hub that has been heavily affected by deindustrialization.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The days are broken up into lessons on observing landscape and land use, sustainable tourism and urban deindustrialization, with at least an hour of class time on each train ride.
    — Mark Alan Rhodes Ii, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The decision sparked a massive wave of deindustrialization across the Midwest.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Cities like Detroit that are still trying to bounce back from deindustrialization know from experience how critical this is.
    — Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
  • Worryingly, deindustrialization appears to be glaring in the eyes of many.
    — Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • After deindustrialization, many cities, like Detroit, had long periods of falling home prices.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Skeleton Crew is part of a nascent body of work commenting on America’s deindustrialization.
    — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
  • The other thing is that the country has undergone a lot of deindustrialization; the composition of the workforce and the ways that people make a living have changed a great deal from that time.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 June 2024
  • 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 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
  • China has played a significant role in this deindustrialization of the United States.
    — Ro Khanna, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • One of the key challenges Pittsburgh faced after the decline of steel was the significant loss of workers fleeing deindustrialization.
    — Christopher Briem, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Chambers grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, which has become something of a poster-child of the ills of deindustrialization.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 19 May 2026
  • Flint has experienced decades of white flight, urban decay, and deindustrialization, all of which has turned the once-promising city into a downtrodden and neglected area.
    — Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Talk of deindustrialization has been hard to swallow for a country that has measured its strength in economic terms since the end of World War II.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 effects of globalization, deindustrialization, and the financial crisis fueled the discontent at the heart of the populist wave.
    — Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
  • 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

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