ISBN: 9780903141758    Publisher: GRANTA Year of publishing: 2005     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 256        Language: English

Britain invented the factory Manchester was the world's first factory-city. Where are they now, and the world of work that went with them? The answer, mainly, is China. An issue devoted to how and where we made and make things, from strawberries in the fields of Herefordshire to the car plants of Korea. Featuring Isabel Hilton in the new factories of China, Joe Sacco on Chechen rebels living in an abandoned dairy factory, Andrew Martin in the chocolate factories of York, Neil Steinberg on the last lamps in Chicago, Des Barry on Merthyr Tydfil- the old Hoover factory where his father worked, Liz Jobey on turning a factory into a home and Luc Sante on the boredom of factory work. Plus new fiction by James Lasdun and Tessa Hadley. With a picture essay on a Rust Belt factory of the American midwest by Alec Soth.
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foreign correspondent. He was a co-founder of the 'Independent on Sunday' in 1989 and edited the paper from 1991 to 1995. Having been editor since 1995, he left 'Granta' in 2007 and now writes regularly for the' Guardian'. He is the author of two books of non-fiction - 'Before the Oil Ran Out: Britian 1977-86' (1987) and 'The Crash That Stopped Britain' (2001).
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