Many schools still follow an old model focused on preparing workers for an industrial economy.
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Metal-forming technologies, and the machine tool industry, continue to be the industrial backbone for any industrial economy.
We took an agricultural economy and transformed it into an industrial economy, then into an information economy.
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Detroit's booming industrial economy was a major draw for migrants from across America, especially the rural South.
In sum, the structures of the industrial economy are neither agile nor inherently creative and simply do not hold in the digital age.
This new industrial economy is already evident in those parts of the country embracing the energy revolution, notably Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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One, typified by Maple Heights, is the Midwest states such as Ohio and Michigan, where the subprime bust is battering an industrial economy already in long-term decline.
Equal weighting is a biased, even a skewed view, for no impact on the changing nature of an industrial economy is detected until a rebalancing takes place.
It did well shifting from a metal-bashing industrial economy in the 1970s to a high-tech and service economy by the 1990s, just across the river from Manhattan.
The past few years for UK inflation has not only been radically different from what came before, they've been radically different from any other major industrial economy.
The Keystone decision only makes sense in the context of a general push to limit energy supply and roll back our industrial economy and all its amazing gifts.
They promised to keep the benefits of the industrial economy that capitalism had created, while replacing the freedom that made it possible with a modern form of tribalism.
Margaret Thatcher tried out her hated poll tax there and that, plus the impact of privatisation and union-bashing on Scotland's industrial economy, turned off voters north of the border.
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Unlike the emerging Ankle Biter Economy, the industrial economy had massive barriers to entry and a wide variety of characteristics and factors that consistently rewarded bigness and institutionalized stability.
Its rule in the countryside is much diminished since the abandonment of collectives, and its urban control is suffering as the state is forced out of the industrial economy.
In the case of Japan the industrial economy facing the greatest crisis they are both worried and, as yet, incapable of the tough decisions needed to deliver reforms that are now long overdue.
In 1954 he was invited to Japan to give a series of lectures which were subsequently credited by the Japanese with having been the basis of their quality-focused post-war industrial economy.
The survey lists Japan and Germany as the two primary countries able to successfully supply China with advanced goods, in a large enough scale to help it build out its industrial economy.
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The notion that cars must form the centre of every industrial economy looks pretty quaint given that the combined market value of Detroit's Big Three is dwarfed by that of Bill Gates's Microsoft.
Decisions had to be made on the basis of unreliable data from a sophisticated industrial economy: government statistics in emerging-market economies are often even more unreliable, making the IMF's job that much more difficult.
And so as people were moving off the farms, moving into the cities, moving into industry, suddenly they were able to get the training and the skills they needed for an advanced industrial economy.
America is no longer an industrial economy.
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Almost immediately by the hundreds at first, then by the thousands the men left their villages to find jobs in a burgeoning industrial economy where they could earn the cash to pay the tax that would at least keep them legal.
If Congress and President Obama want to figure out how to restart our industrial economy, they need to travel not to Detroit but to an alternative universe that includes the South and Appalachia, where most of the new foreign-owned auto manufacturers have clustered.
What we can be sure is that the growth of sophisticated financial systems will continue to play an important role in fashioning the changes in all of our lives, including funding (often speculatively) the technologies that have transformed our world already from an agricultural to an industrial economy, and are now perhaps shaping the first post-industrial information economy.
It is running at two speeds: steady local demand boosted by credit and strong labor markets on one side, and a weaker industrial and export economy facing strong, imported competition and less demand from the U.S. and European trading partners.
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The railroads were so domineering that the U.S. led the way in the Second Industrial Revolution and its economy boomed.
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Alcohol became central to American politics at a time when Americans were arguing whether the country should be rural or urban, a farm economy or industrial, and whether Catholics could ever become good Americans.
But for good or ill, she presided over the most dramatic transformation of the Welsh economy since the industrial revolution.
Cities like Sao Paulo are designed for an industrial age while the urban economy has become 85% related to services.
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