The Demise of Skilled Manufacture - Craig Whittet

On our first Design & Technology lecture we were given a talk about the demise of skilled manufacturing in the UK and the Western Europe. It was a very interesting talk for me since as a foreign I didn't entirely know about the current situation in the United Kingdom. The fact that the pay for skilled manufacturing is very low moves  UK companies abroad, if you give people the choice of doing an easy, good paid job like telemarketing in choice of unrespected low pay manufacturing job you can see what happens.

What personally annoys me a lot is that I know that these companies should and could pay people the money. One good example of the greediness of some organisations are unpaid internships. They get educated students to do work and make profit for them and pay nothing. I am not saying that unqualified students should be paid much but at least the minimum salary. The reason this can continue is the fact that there are students who don't have experience (like me) and have to get it from somewhere.

The low pay of workers isn't the only reason why you can't keep companies in the country, I know for example that in Finland the pay for skilled worker is high but companies move abroad to find cheaper skilled workers. The situation is very hard but what I personally think is that the governments should invest on local companies. This would give the people a chance to buy local products with a reasonable prices which is quiet rare these days.