Mar
18
“Founded in 1984, Nissan’s Sunderland factory employs around 4,000 people.”
The Guardian on the manufacture of a groundbreaking new electric car, the Nissan Leaf.
I’ve of course always known that large factories are integral to regional economies and employment markets, but for some reason I’ve been ignorant of the fact that they can be quite *this* huge. It’s easy to see how the closure of such a factory could seriously affect its local area.
