Windows Were The First Thing We Made Ourselves. Other Products, Such As Cement And Plasterboard, CAME Later. Some Of The Factories We ACTUALLY Built Because Of Union Blockades Trying To Stop US Getting Supplies.

I Enjoy GOING Out To The Plants, The Factories Where Just Some Sub-element Maybe Of The Orbiter Or The SPACE Station Is BUILT. Those People Take Such Pride In That Component, And They Build It To Perfection, And It's Just A PLEASURE To SEE That.

The ERA Of Industrial Britain, Where A Large Section Of Our WORKFORCE Provided Cheap Labour In Factories And Processing GOODS, Is Over.

Factories Not What They USED To Be - They're All EXTREMELY HIGH-TECH.

We've GOT People, Our FRIENDS And Neighbors, Who Are Losing Their Jobs, Factories Being Closed. We Have To Get AMERICA Moving Again.

Flexible SUPPLY CHAINS Are Great For Multinationals And Consumers. But They Erode Already THIN Profit Margins In Developing-world Factories And Foster A Pell-mell WORK Environment In Which Getting The ORDER Out The Door Is The Only Thing That Matters.

The PRODUCTS BUILT In The Factories Of G.M., Ford And Chrysler Are Some Of The GREATEST WEAPONS Of Mass Destruction Responsible For Global WARMING And The Melting Of Our Polar Icecaps.

Politicians Of Both Parties Told US That Free Trade With ASIA And Latin AMERICA Would Spur Economic Growth, And Maybe It Did Somewhere Else. In Our Towns, Though, Factories Continue Shutting Down Or Moving OVERSEAS.

Life On A Factory FARM Is Well-nigh Unbearable For The Animals Or Birds, And It Is OFTEN Foul For The Women And MEN Who Process The Meat That Results - Especially In Factories For Chicken PARTS. But Do Not Sentimentalize. Do Not IMAGINE Barnyard Life Is A Bowl Of Cherries.

When You Take Over A Company Like GE, You Think You're Going To Visit 100 Businesses. You're Going To Go See The Factories You Haven't SEEN Before. You're Going To See A Site In TEXAS And One In CANADA And STUFF Like That. That Has Fallen By The Wayside.