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 sixty images, most of them published for the first time.
Dundee was the world's jute manufacturing capital Juteopolis, but behind that success lay social distress factory chimney s poured forth steam and smoke, housing was substandard and overcrowded, infant mortality was shockingly high. But as the present century dawned, a new Dundee was in the making. Juteopolis no more; in its stead Dundee proclaimed itself Scotland s City of Discovery . Biosciences and computer games are what many people now associate with Dundee. Students abound where mill workers formerly promenaded.
- Format: Hardback
- Size: 23.62 cm x 3.81 cm x 16.26 cm
- Page count: 328