Granta 89: The Factory
The business of making things is becoming a memory for much of the western world – the very business that once gave mastery over the east and the south. Factories don’t just make objects. They created (and elsewhere go on creating) a way of life. This issue includes fiction, memoir, reportage and, in its first full English publication, a rare interview with James Joyce.
In this issue
Ian Jack: Motley Notes
Isabel Hilton: Made in China
Desmond Barry: A Job on the Line
Alec Soth: The Making of Parts
Andrew Martin: Chocolate Empires
Luc Sante: Plastics
Joe Sacco: In the Milk Factory
Neil Steinberg: Fancy Lamps
Liz Jobey: Lister’s Mill
Tessa Hadley: Buckets of Blood
Thomas Healy: Martin and Me
James Lasdun: The Muse in the Cellar
Adolf Hoffmeister: The Game of Evenings – an interview with James Joyce
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Fancy Lamps
The struggle to go on making things in Chicago
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Plastics
The question arises: what dignity is there in labour?
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Martin and Me
His dog saves the author from drink and depression
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Made in China
What became of the workers’ paradise?