I just don’t know that it’s feasible. As the article mentions, the U.K. shipbuilding industry was dependent on cheap, skilled labour. It doesn’t touch upon ju

I just don’t know that it’s feasible. As the article mentions, the U.K. shipbuilding industry was dependent on cheap, skilled labour. It doesn’t touch upon just how cheap. My ancestors were riveters and boiler fitters in Glasgow from about the 1860s to the 1920s - they lived 30 to a room in tenements, three generations atop on another, and had to start work aged 5 or 6 to prevent the family from falling into destitution. The economics essentially demanded that you crank out descendants, as only by pooling a number of incomes could you survive. Everybody had horrific injuries of one variety or another. Most died before reaching 50. The other thing that the article elides is just how much that workforce was shattered by the wars - an awful lot of Glaswegian and other shipbuilders signed up for the navy, as it was a much better opportunity than just making the boats - and proceeded to die at sea in droves. Their families did not receive compensation or their pay more often than not, as it was considered to be bad for morale to say a ship had been lost, and instead all aboard would be classed as missing or as deserters, and when they did finally say “yes, this ship was lost” 15 years after each war, it was usually far too late to be of any use. Anyway. I just can’t see the working classes or international human rights organisations being willing to do the same again.