Western industrialization actively deindustrialized the rest of the world

Evidence

In 1750 China accounted for almost one-third, India for almost one-quarter, and the West for less than a fifth of the world’s manufacturing output. By 1830 the West had pulled slightly ahead of China. In the following decades, as Paul Bairoch points out, the industrialization of the West led to the deindustrialization of the rest of the world. In 1913 the manufacturing output of non-Western countries was roughly two-thirds what it had been in 1800. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century the Western share rose dramatically, peaking in 1928 at 84.2 percent of world manufacturing output. Thereafter the West’s share declined as its rate of growth remained modest and as less industrialized countries expanded their output rapidly after World War II. By 1980 the West accounted for 57.8 percent of global manufacturing output, roughly the share it had 120 years earlier in the 1860s. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 234

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that Western industrialization deindustrialized the non-Western world — a mechanism worth chasing further; what was the causal path?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 234
• XREF: connects to: Third World industrialization and capital flows barely grew despite globalization rhetoric — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 511; Western wealth was built by actively creating underdevelopment elsewhere — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 293; More industrially developed countries display the future of less developed ones — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 2248 (+1 more)