Industrial complex
Encyclopedia
Industrial complex may refer to:
- A factoryFactoryA factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial building where laborers manufacture goods or supervise machines processing one product into another. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production...
or collection of buildings relating to industrial production - Animal industrial complex, a term from the critical animal studiesCritical animal studiesCritical Animal Studies is a term increasingly used by a wide range of academic groups who variously link it to what is otherwise known as "Animal Studies" , "Human-Animal Studies" , or "Posthumanism." Yet, there are key differences in terms of the ideological and methodological approaches to...
coined by Barbara Noske to describe the social production of the institutionalized exploitation of nonhuman animals. - Military–industrial complex, the term referring to a close and symbiotic relationship between a nation's armed forces, and its private industry.
- Prison–industrial complex, the term meaning interest groups that represent organizations that do business in correctional facilities who are believed to be more concerned with making more money than actually rehabilitating criminals or reducing crime rates.
- College–industrial complex, the term referring to the theory that colleges and universities are more concerned with making money than education.
- Industrial Complex (album)Industrial Complex (album)Industrial Complex is the sixth studio album from British EBM group Nitzer Ebb. It was released by Major Records on in Europe, fifteen years after the band's last studio album. This is the band's first release after parting company with Mute Records following its 2006 retrospective, Body of Work...
, a 2010 album by Nitzer Ebb