Rust of the world

In his new book, Time to Start Thinking, the Financial Times’ Ed Luce wanders Middle America, and delivers to us a story now familiar: of an industrial landscape in decline. Since Michael Moore’s Roger and Me in 1989, we have known that America’s industrial belt has rusted. Some blame globalisation, others technical change; neither is likely to reverse itself. And yet, manufacturing is suddenly central to America’s economic revival and to the debates in its presidential campaign.

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