Citation
(2000), "Making it", Work Study, Vol. 49 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ws.2000.07949baa.005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2000, MCB UP Limited
Making it
What is a manufacturing company? I only ask because I was analysing some data relating to the manufacturing industry and I idly thought of the question. In the sense that many firms now outsource their manufacturing but assemble and sell manufactured goods into a distribution chain, are they still manufacturers? The UK is now much less of a manufacturing nation than hitherto ... or is it?