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by gmtx725 2146 days ago
> Interestingly, it seems the US is almost unique in our mass deindustrialization

The UK has vast swathes of poverty in the deindustrialised north of England and other areas. Former mining and heavy industry towns that even today almost 40 years on from deindustrialisation are dominated by insecure, unskilled work and unemployment