YOUR LIFE IS MANUFACTURED

From an award winning and internationally renowned expert a wonderfully illuminating journey through the world of manufacturing and its transformational influence on our lives and the world around us Revelatory SUNDAY TIMES Fascinating THE TIMES Intensely readable IRISH TIMES Well observed and enjoyably written FINANCIAL TIMES An extraordinarily good read DAVID SPIEGELHALTER author of The Art of Statistics An illuminating and at times mind boggling exploration of a global choreography that means I won t look at my kettle the same way again ZOE LAUGHLIN presenter of BBC Four s How to Make We live in a manufactured world Unless you are floating naked through space you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products How often do we stop to think where do the things we buy actually come from There exists a nearly invisible awe inspiring global system of manufacturing that enables virtually every aspect of our existence The things we surround ourselves with take surprising and often byzantine journeys to reach us be it the thousands of litres of water needed to make a single pair of jeans or the components of our smartphones travelling over six times around the world to reach us From mega factory floors