Industrial complex may refer to:
- A factory or collection of buildings relating to industrial production
- 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), a 2010 album by Nitzer Ebb
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“Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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