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DEFINITION of 'Industrialization'. The process in which a society or country (or world) transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services.
Industrialization marked a shift to special purpose machinery, factories, & mass production (vs. being done in homes with hand tools or basic machines. textile industries, along with the development of the steam engine, played a central role in the Industrial Revolution.