postindustrial
Speech parts
1. postindustrial - Adjective
2. postindustrial - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research
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Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter the postmodern age.
In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.
I see myself as representing the conservative wing of the postindustrial society.
postindustrial countries
These conditions have been met in the U.S. largely as a result of suburbanization and other postindustrial phenomena.
In the postindustrial economy, the expansion of middle class jobs in inner cities came at the same time as many of the ideals of this movement.