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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