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On a related note, for those who don't mind reading 17k words on industrial decline, is Ian Jack's great take on (civilian) shipbuilding in Glasgow.

The relevance to TFA is the difficulty of recovering the arts of ship construction lost to offshoring, financial engineering, politics, whatever. And it's a great read.

[1] https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n18/ian-jack/chasing-ste...




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