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Originally Posted by james_timothy 
I'm recalling a member here who said, after three generations of working in a factory, over his dead body was he going to work in a factory. Somehow we dehumanized the work in factories, removed the craftsmanship aspect, so much that no one wanted to do it any more.
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From here..If you go to a cafe in Italy and it’s the main man in the cafe, people treat him with respect. That’s what he does, that’s his job. He runs the cafe, he’s the main waiter at the cafe. He’s good with people, he manages the cafe well but here it’s like ‘oh, you work in a caff. Oh, you make clothes’. In other countries making isn’t deemed to be a crap job. Here we’ve lost that, we don’t respect that enough. That’s why they struggle to find people to work in factories, because it’s not a glamourous thing to do, not even a glamourous thing to do, it’s not seen as a decent thing to do, it’s a bit embarrassing to do. And that’s a real shame. I think that’s a big problem.
I'm recalling a member here who said, after three generations of working in a factory, over his dead body was he going to work in a factory. Somehow we dehumanized the work in factories, removed the craftsmanship aspect, so much that no one wanted to do it any more.
The rot set in when we moved from workshops to factories. Craftsmen are time consuming and expensive to train, much cheaper in the long run to invest in a machine that will sort of do the job at least well enough for most people not to notice. It's as a result of that that factory work is so dull and most ofnthe products of today are so poor. Craftsmanship, certainly in our trade is getting harder and harder to find, we find it next tomimpossible to find good people and the youngsters aren't interested in working with their hands. Maybe the Internet will help the craft based businesses show why what they do is different and valuable
Charlie
