Workers leaving the Ford Motor works in Detroit, circa 1930. Novelist Erskine Caldwell called it the ‘eight-finger city’ because industrial accidents in manufacturing were so rife © Fox Photos/Getty Everyone loves manufacturing jobs. In the US, a fondness for factories is something President Joe Biden shares with his predecessor Donald Trump. “I don’t buy for one second that the vitality of American manufacturing is a thing of the past,” Biden said in January as he signed an executive order to encourage more federal government purchases of American-made goods. In the UK, the ruling Conservative party is drawn to the […]
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