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Quotes About Deindustrialization

Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country.
~ George Packer
When President Kirchner complains, I often sympathise with him, because Argentina was deindustrialised, and it is perfectly normal for the president of a country to try to get industry back.
~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.
~ Michelle Alexander
The cri de coeur of this lost generation, orphans of global capitalism, rises up from deindustrialized cities across the nation. This generation has been cast aside by a society that views them as cogs, menial wage slaves who will do the drudgery that plagues the working poor in postindustrial America.
~ Chris Hedges
We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.
~ Ivan Krastev