Re: Yeuch...
WHS x 100!
Common myths of manufacturing: destroyed!
No, total economic value of UK manufacturing is as high (in real terms) as ever (and in the US it has grown: where people also talk about the "destruction of manufacturing")..
Manufacturing employment is a different matter: lots of low skill jobs have been replaced by automation. With a move from old heave industries to component building and assembly. And manufacturing as a proportion of the economy has reduced: but that's because services have grown, not because manufacturing has shrunk.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
