Jute No More: Transforming Dundee

Jim Tomlinson; Christopher Whatley

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2011

Jute No More

Transforming Dundee

Jim Tomlinson and Christopher Whatley

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474473279

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About this book

As the Victorian era drew to a close, Dundee was the world's jute manufacturing capital - 'Juteopolis'. But behind that success was a harsh working environment and low wages, especially for the predominantly female workforce. There was appalling social distress, resulting in part from abysmal living conditions.

As the present century dawned, a new Dundee was in the making. 'Juteopolis' no more; in the later twentieth century Dundee had pro claimed itself Scotland's 'City of Discovery'. Biosciences and computer games are what many people now associate with Dundee - although journalism is still flourishing. In what has become a university city, students abound where mill workers formerly promenaded.

This book traces the process of industrial decline and its social and political reverberations. But it is also a remarkable story of urban transformation, and how this impacted on jobs, the physical environment, social life, culture and politics.

Jute No More is richly illustrated with over 60 images, most of them published for the first time.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xviii
Introduction Christopher A. Whatley Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Chapter 1 Dundee and the World: De-globalisation, De-industrialisation and Democratisation Jim Tomlinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Key Themes
Chapter 2 Endgame for Jute: Dundee and Calcutta in the Twentieth Century Gordon Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 3 The Physical Development of the Tay Estuary in the Twentieth Century and its Impact Rob Duck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter 4 ‘Beautifying and Improving the City’: The pursuit of a Monumental Dundee during the Twentieth Century Charles McKean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 5 A Women’s Town? Dundee Women on the Public Stage Sarah Browne and Jim Tomlinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 6 Juteopolis and After: Women and Work in Twentieth-Century Dundee Valerie Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Chapter 7 Dundee: Art, Artists and their Public from 1900 Matthew Jarron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Part 2 Key Episodes
Chapter 8 Labour Politics and the Dundee Working Class c.1895‒1936 Kenneth Baxter and William Kenefick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Chapter 9 Music and the People: Dundee, c.1914‒39 Ruth Forbes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Chapter 10 The ‘Retreat’ to Scotland: The Tay Road Bridge and Dundee’s Post-1945 Development Jim Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Chapter 11 The Union Makes us Strong? Work and Trade Unionism in Timex, 1946‒83 Bill Knox and Alan McKinlay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
Chapter 12 City of Discovery? Dundee since the 1980s Jim Tomlinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 59 B/W illustrations 23 colour illustrations
Keywords: Scottish Studies

eBook

Published: February 24, 2011
ISBN: 9781474473279