As governments around the world wrestle with the challenge of when and how to ease the global lockdown, Keith Ridgway says the moment must be seized to rebalance the UK economy, to make it much more resilient to life-threatening disruptions from dangerously extended manufacturing supply chains.
It is a weighty challenge, for sure, but one possible response, glimpsed even in the midst of the current crisis, is to create the digital equivalent of an earlier form of industrial home working. Perfected in Sheffield in the early 19th century, a cluster of ‘Little Mesters’ was drawn together by a complex interdependence of…
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