Industrial Disease (song)

"Industrial Disease"
Single by Dire Straits
from the album Love over Gold
B-side	"Badges, Posters, Stickers, T-Shirts"
Released	November 1982
Genre	Rock
Length	4:17 (single version) 5:48 (album version)
Label	Vertigo Records
Songwriter(s)	Mark Knopfler
Producer(s)	Mark Knopfler
Dire Straits singles chronology
"Private Investigations" (1982) "Industrial Disease" (1982) "Twisting by the Pool" (1983)

"Industrial Disease" is a 1982 song by British rock band Dire Straits. It was taken from their fourth studio album Love over Gold. It went to number 4 in the United States and was a B-side in the United Kingdom to the single Private Investigations. It deals with the strike of the British television in the early 1980s.