It's not too late to save our industry

Tim Williams, Regeneration & Renewal, 22 June 2007

I usually think that as a nation, we need to get out more. That is, we think we have poverty and inequality in this country, but compared with the average citizen of Upper Volta we are all like so many pigs in the proverbial. The revelations in the Guardian last week about slave labour conditions in Chinese brick factories reinforced the view that we just don't know how well off we are in this country. But then a phone call from my sister reminded me of another Britain - the one, I guess, we are trying to regenerate.

My sister works in the same factory in which our parents toiled. Although now permanent, for decades she was a temp there. She earns the regal sum of £7.72 an...

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