My mates wife worked at the Sewing factory in Masbrough ( Courtaulds), she got my partner a job there about 1992, she was on over £6 a hour then, i was on about £3.50 I said it will go bust soon. Courtaulds closed it and moved it to Morocco because it was cheaper(surprise). My partner moved up in the industry and visited the factories in Casablanca and Tangiers, H&S ? forget it.
They got greedy with the prices and eventually a few years later China took all the work. She worked/lived there over 7yrs supervising the factories there and also in Sri Lanka, Bangkok and now Vietnam. China is on it's ar$e, cannot get a people to work in the factories. Chinese companies are now building factories in Vietnam and Myanmar where they will work and are cheaper.

If people think that non specialised manufactoring will return to the uk in numbers then dream on. Look what happened in the Leicester factories who make for Boohoo and the other throw away companies, people were lucky to earn £3 a hour.
Unless this is what people want.........lots buy their products and then moan about equality and social justice.
Look at the labels in all your clothes....................