Industrialization is the process by which an economy is transformed from a primarily agricultural one to one based on the manufacturing of goods. Individual manual labor is often replaced by mechanized mass production, and craftsmen are replaced by assembly lines.

What does industrialized mean?

noun. the large-scale introduction of manufacturing, advanced technical enterprises, and other productive economic activity into an area, society, country, etc. conversion to the methods, aims, and ideals of industry and economic activity, particularly of an area that was previously underdeveloped economically.

What is an example of industrialized?

The definition of industrialize is to start the production of something in a large-scale business or in a manufacturing plant. An example of industrialize is when jewelry which was previously handmade at home is now made by machines in a factory. verb. To develop industry in (a country or society, for example).