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Jute no more : transforming Dundee /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dundee :
Dundee University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 abysmalliving 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 326 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781845862176 1845862171 184586090X 9781845860905 9781474406031 1474406033 |