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Jute No More : Transforming Dundee / Jim Tomlinson, Christopher Whatley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) : 59 B/W illustrations 23 colour illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781845860905
  • 9781474473279
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Dundee and the World: De-globalisation, De-industrialisation and Democratisation -- Part 1 Key Themes -- Chapter 2 Endgame for Jute: Dundee and Calcutta in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3 The Physical Development of the Tay Estuary in the Twentieth Century and its Impact -- Chapter 4 ‘Beautifying and Improving the City’: The pursuit of a Monumental Dundee during the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5 A Women’s Town? Dundee Women on the Public Stage -- Chapter 6 Juteopolis and After: Women and Work in Twentieth-Century Dundee -- Chapter 7 Dundee: Art, Artists and their Public from 1900 -- Part 2 Key Episodes -- Chapter 8 Labour Politics and the Dundee Working Class c.1895‒1936 -- Chapter 9 Music and the People: Dundee, c.1914‒39 -- Chapter 10 The ‘Retreat’ to Scotland: The Tay Road Bridge and Dundee’s Post-1945 Development -- Chapter 11 The Union Makes us Strong? Work and Trade Unionism in Timex, 1946‒83 -- Chapter 12 City of Discovery? Dundee since the 1980s -- Index
Summary: 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 -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Dundee and the World: De-globalisation, De-industrialisation and Democratisation -- Part 1 Key Themes -- Chapter 2 Endgame for Jute: Dundee and Calcutta in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3 The Physical Development of the Tay Estuary in the Twentieth Century and its Impact -- Chapter 4 ‘Beautifying and Improving the City’: The pursuit of a Monumental Dundee during the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 5 A Women’s Town? Dundee Women on the Public Stage -- Chapter 6 Juteopolis and After: Women and Work in Twentieth-Century Dundee -- Chapter 7 Dundee: Art, Artists and their Public from 1900 -- Part 2 Key Episodes -- Chapter 8 Labour Politics and the Dundee Working Class c.1895‒1936 -- Chapter 9 Music and the People: Dundee, c.1914‒39 -- Chapter 10 The ‘Retreat’ to Scotland: The Tay Road Bridge and Dundee’s Post-1945 Development -- Chapter 11 The Union Makes us Strong? Work and Trade Unionism in Timex, 1946‒83 -- Chapter 12 City of Discovery? Dundee since the 1980s -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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