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
Famous quotes containing the words industrial and/or complex:
“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)
“What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.”
—Jerry Garcia (1942–1995)