industries (n.)
late 15c., “cleverness, skill,” from Old French industrie “activity; aptitude, experience” (14c.) or directly from Latin industria “diligence, activity, zeal,” noun use of fem. of industrius “active, diligent,” from early Latin indostruus “diligent,” from indu “in, within” (i.e. indigenous) + stem of struere “to build” (structure). The meaning “habitual diligence, effort” is from 1530s; that of “systematic work” is from 1610s. The sense “a particular trade or manufacture” is first recorded 1560s.
An immense industrial network cannot be managed in the same way that one changes a tire… It expresses a circuit of cosmic energy on which it depends, which it cannot limit, and whose laws it cannot ignore without consequences.
The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption
