Your Life is Manufactured
A timely argument about the perils of losing touch with the art of making things. No Maga acolyte, Minshall is an academic expert on innovation and technology, who leads a specialist manufacturing institute at Cambridge university. His book is part admiring hymn to the sophistication of modern factories and logistics systems, and part warning about the ways our modern global manufacturing system can go awry. — Read the complete FT review
Synopsis
We live in a manufactured world. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products, be they furniture, technology, clothing or even food. And yet the processes by which these things appear in our lives are virtually invisible.
Tracing the surprising journeys taken by everyday items to reach us, Your Life is Manufactured maps the awe-inspiring global system of manufacturing that enables virtually every aspect of our existence. In making sense of this world, it grants us the ability to make better choices for ourselves, our communities and the planet.
