Britain’s manufacturing recovery from the financial crash is built on an expansion of low-skilled jobs, according to a report that dents the sector’s modern, hi-tech image. Dr Craig Berry, the author of the report, said: “The growth in manufacturing jobs in the last five years, however limited, is to be welcomed. UK should not prop up failing industries, say business groups Read more“There are few signs of sustainable growth in advanced manufacturing industries, and we now seem to be witnessing a new phenomenon whereby the UK manufacturing sector is creating lower-skilled jobs without enhancing its productive capacity. The number of jobs in manufacturing has slumped from 7m in 1971 to 3.8m in 2001 and little more than 2.7m this year. However, the report shows that much of the expansion in manufacturing has also relied on workers filling jobs with .

Source: The Guardian October 20, 2016 23:00 UTC