British manufacturing output has grown significantly over the last 40 years, despite a 60% reduction in manufacturing employment over the same period. We're mak

British manufacturing output has grown significantly over the last 40 years, despite a 60% reduction in manufacturing employment over the same period. We're making more and better stuff with far fewer people. The union narrative of manufacturing having been "run into the ground" by neglectful governments is clearly bogus, as is the nationalist narrative that manufacturing jobs have been exported abroad. This is about automation and mechanisation. http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2803400/UK-manufacturing-output-increased-1978-ONS-figures-show.html http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2803400/UK-m...