industrialization

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The turn-of-the-century molds in his studio — which use botanic motifs, blossoming forms with metallic winged and floral attachments — look like desk toppers fit for an early 1900s eccentric obsessed with Darwinism and industrialization.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

In a food system shaped by decades of industrialization, many of the connections people once had to food — to place, to ritual, to community — have weakened.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

His skepticism of “improved means to an unimproved end”—which essentially alleged that, as life got faster, it didn’t necessarily get better—resonated with laborers watching their jobs vanish in the face of industrialization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Moreover, its rise narrowed the policy space for others: strategies that once enabled late industrialization are now contested or constrained by new trade, investment, and climate regimes.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

This was a direct result of the growth of agriculture and industrialization, and an unprecedented growth—more of an explosion, actually—in the human population.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh