'mainstream industries' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to industries which are considered to be the most influential or dominant within a particular sector. For example: "High-tech companies are often more innovative than mainstream industries."
As platform companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Uber, Amazon, Airbnb, and LinkedIn relentlessly disrupt — and redefine — mainstream industries, we see network effects as their "secret sauce" for success.
Manpower expects the use of self-employed people to become more common in mainstream industries, especially where the internet allows workers to be managed remotely.
Hundreds of thousands in this status-less army of labour are toiling in mainstream industries, such as food-processing, agriculture, the hotel industry, manufacturing, construction and so on.
The trend is more prevalent among former employees of technology companies, but as tools have emerged that make setting up Web sites and chat rooms easier, the concept has spread to mainstream industries.
And like the Irish government's grants and tax breaks for mainstream industries, the exemption gives stallion owners a reason to keep their horses in Ireland, which in turn generates tax revenues by stimulating other businesses.
What is a major difference in the cannabis industry from other, more mainstream, industries?
Another is that he despises the mainstream industry's politically correct obsession with safety.
Spurred by health care trends and technological advances, telemedicine is growing into a mainstream industry.
For many, this year's event has come to symbolise a growing malaise in the mainstream industry.
Having started out as an independent, Egoyan is now coming to terms with the mainstream industry.
In that respect, it's not too different from the cherished principles of mainstream industry.
