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when the factory leaves town but the building stays, empty, judging everyone.
means the large-scale decline of manufacturing and industrial activity in a region, replaced by services, imports, or silence.
from coined mid-20th century to describe the flip side of industrialization, it went mainstream in the 1970s-80s as rust belts formed across the US and UK when factories chased cheaper labor overseas.
rust belt termnamed for literally rusting, abandoned steel plants
not just declineoften means jobs moved, not vanished entirely
peak US yearmanufacturing employment peaked around 1979
global flip sideone country's deindustrialization is another's boom