Usage examples (38)

• DH: There had been, during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a steady process of deindustrialization, that is, the loss of manufacturing jobs.
• Politicians tend to equate unemployment with "deindustrialization," as they respond to unemployed steel-workers marching across the television screen.
• The towns are mostly empty, ravaged by deindustrialization.
• And this is what I see as the deindustrialization of America.