Deindustrialisation and the moral economy in Scotland since 1955 / Jim Phillips, Valerie Wright, Jim Tomlinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Jim, 1968- author.

Wright, Valerie (Research associate), author.

Tomlinson, Jim, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deindustrialization--Scotland--History--20th century.

Deindustrialization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Deindustrialisation is the central feature of Scotland's economic, social and political history since the 1950s, when employment levels peaked in the established sectors of coal, shipbuilding, metals and textiles, along with the railways and docks. This book moves analysis beyond outmoded tropes of economic decline and industrial catastrophe, and instead examines the political economy of deindustrialisation with a sharp eye on cultural and social dimensions that were not uniformly negative, as often assumed. Viewing the long-term process of deindustrialisation through a moral economy framework, the book carefully reconstructs the impact of economic change on social class, gender relations and political allegiances, including a reawakened sense of Scottish national identity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I UNDERSTANDING DEINDUSTRIALISATION

1 Deindustrialisation as a Historical and Global Phenomenon

2 The Moral Economies of Deindustrialisation

3 Scotland and the Age of Deindustrialisation

PART II THE POLITICS OF DEINDUSTRIALISATION

4 Fairfield, Govan: Shipbuilding and the Scottish Nation

5 Linwood, Renfrewshire: Car Manufacturing and Scotland’s Political Divergence from England

6 Timex, Dundee: Watches, Electronics and the Moral Economy

PART III LEGACY AND EVALUATION

7 Deindustrialisation since the 1990s

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2022).

ISBN:

1-4744-7927-8

1-3995-0980-2

1-4744-7926-X

OCLC:

1292971057