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Re-industrialising Scotland
Stephen Boyd, STUCDecent Work, Dignified Lives
15 October 2014
Manufacturing output as % of GDP
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How to explain UK’s relatively poor performance?
• Lack of political support• Endemic short-termism• The ‘imperial overhang’• Complacent attitude to ownership and
control• skills…not primarily a story of high costs…
Hourly labour costs in euros, EU 28, 2013
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Product market regulation and barriers to trade and investment, OECD, 2013
“Indeed, the manufacturing sector is also where the world’s middle classes take shape and grow. Without a vibrant manufacturing base, societies tend to divide between rich and poor – those who have access to steady, well-paying jobs, and those whose jobs are less secure and lives more precarious. Manufacturing may ultimately be central to the vigor of a nation’s democracy”.Dani Rodrik, 2011