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- noun Alternative spelling of
deindustrialization .
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Examples
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And also, assuming the effects of "deindustrialisation" were worse in Scotland than they were in England then there is no douobt that fiscally an independent Scotland would have suffered more as a result.
The Union Dividend Jeff 2007
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In those communities – already suffering the effects of deindustrialisation, unmanaged migration and globalisation – where Labour got lazy and took the white working-class vote for granted, the BNP made a series of electoral inroads.
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While on a bus tour this week across a midwest ravaged by deindustrialisation, President Barack Obama has ironically been touting job-killing free trade agreements.
Obama's midwest bus tour message backfires | Daniel Denvir 2011
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Some accept that the savage deindustrialisation that accompanied her remedies inflicted deep scars on Britain that have never properly healed.
No one should want to go back to the 80s – not even the Tories | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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It compensates for the perceived diminished status of certain Pakistani males in a society where deindustrialisation and the move to a more female friendly service sector means that this situation and lack of ego security must be rationalised by dehumanising the "other" .
Too many of us treat young white women as trash | Barbara Ellen 2011
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From the left, there was the Militant council and its pigheaded radicalism; from the right, there was savage deindustrialisation led by monetarist callousness.
How all politicians have made a mess of my beloved Merseyside | Alexei Sayle 2012
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The architects of this model promote both the trade side and the deindustrialisation side of these arguments.
Response: We don't need to de-industrialise to meet our emissions targets 2011
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Brooks writes excellently, for instance, on the failure of a lot of traditional policy-making to work with the contours of human nature much 20th-century urban and suburban planning being a good example and the need for a focus on policies that strengthen "character" and life skills – especially for poorer families left behind by deindustrialisation and rising inequality.
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This is partly because of deindustrialisation, partly because of wages being held down by competition from immigrants, but also partly because the tax and benefit system does not seek to shore up their position.
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The answer – deindustrialisation and irreversible social change – is heartbreakingly obvious.
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