Towards the Unmanned Factory

Ever since the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century, the proportion of the population engaged in argriculture has been steadily falling while the number of industrial workers has increased; that is, until the mid 1960s. In 1966, employment in UK manufacturing peaked at 8.6 million and since then about two million have left the industrial sector. At one time in 1981, the engineering industry was losing 1,000 jobs a day.