society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In an industrial society, people use technology to produce a lot of things (mass production). This leads to a large population with an organized division of labour. This happened to the Western world during the Industrial Revolution. This replaced farming or agrarian societies of the pre-modern age.[1]
The US and many European nations are examples of industrial societies. China and India are also somewhat industrial but large parts of their populations still farm.[source?]
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