Jute No More : : Transforming Dundee / / Jim Tomlinson, Christopher Whatley.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 59 B/W illustrations 23 colour illustrations |
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Table of 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