Meaning of smokestack industry | Babel Free

Definitions

Any industry or large manufacturing facility that uses smokestacks to dispose of unwanted materials into the atmosphere.

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“Again, the government policy to be pursued when a smokestack industry such as steel is coping with the demand-side effects of a worldwide recession is quite different from what should be done when another smokestack industry such as autos is trying to regain⟳ is competitive footing[…]”

“Around the same time, nationally syndicated journalist Robert Walters was reporting that ‘many members of Congress refuse⟳ to even acknowledge the fact that uncounted thousands of jobs in the auto, steel and other traditional “smokestack” industries have⟳ been irretrievably lost while employment opportunities in high technology fields are becoming available at an accelerating rate[…]”

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