The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies" - the US, UK, Germany, and Japan - are being edged out of a profitable future. This book explores 250 years in the history of manufacturing.

Subtitled, "Consumers, Globalisation & The End Of Mass Production". 'A fizzing analysis of the history and geography of manufacturing and where it is heading' "Economist"