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absenteeism, 39, 44, 53, 61
AEU (Amalgamated Engineering Union),
47–8, 51–3, 59
AIC (Associated Industrial Consultants),
42, 46–7, 60
AJSM (Association of Jute Spinners &
Manufacturers)
and the ‘capabilities of women’, 42–3
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and conditions of employment in jute
industry, 45
creation of, 13
and double day shift, 49–50
and India, 15
and Jute Working Party Report, 125
and labour disputes, 17
and lobbying, 15–16, 127, 142
and polypropylene, 61
and protection, 15, 18, 49, 156
and Restrictive Trade Practices Court,
85, 87
and shorter working week, 50
and wages, 46–7, 51–2, 59–60
and Wages Council, 13
and work study, 47–8
Amalgamated Engineering Union see AEU
American multinationals, 138, 159
Attlee government, 1, 35, 121, 141, 157, 159
Bangladesh, 25–8, 99, 127–8
bargaining, centralized, 61
Bengal, 2, 9, 15–16, 26–7
Beveridge, W., 18, 119
BJTFC (British Jute Trade Federal Council),
38, 85, 87, 91, 161
BJTRA (British Jute Trade Research Asso-
ciation), 29, 97, 125, 159
– 215 –
Board of Trade
and Dundee and District Local Employ-
ment Committee, 38
and Jute Control, 79–80, 85–7
and Jute Working Group, 89
and Jute Working Party, 121
and the Jute Working Party, 66–7
and the Jute Working Party Report, 71,
133
and ‘new industries’, 38, 122
and protection, 120, 124–5
relationship with the jute industry, 65
and Restrictive Trade Practices Court,
84–6
Bonar, George, 15
Bonar, Herbert, 76, 78, 85
Bonar, Hugh, 160
Booth, A., 106
Boyce, G., 98
Boyce, J., 72
British Jute Trade Research Institute, 6
British Polyoeflin Textiles Association, 61
Broadberry, S., 12
‘Brown Books’, 81, 83, 85, 87–8
Cabinet (British Government), 89, 124–5,
160
Cairncross, A., 70
Calcutta, 10–11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 31, 34, 64
Caldrum Works, 105, 111
Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.,
73, 143
Camperdown Works ( Jute Industries), 14,
17, 39, 44, 100
capital intensity, 93, 110
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carpet backing, 6, 25, 29–30, 42, 44, 75,
97–8, 132
carpet industry, 28, 79, 81, 94–5, 103, 108,
110, 126
tufted, 23, 107, 109
woven, 103–4, 110
Carstairs, A., 131, 142
cartels, 33, 70, 75
Carter, C., 33, 125
Census of Production, 1, 71, 102, 107
closed shop, 55–8
co-operation, 62, 65, 68, 75–6, 80–1, 84,
90–1, 97
culture of, 83, 91
co-operative strategies, 74–6, 78, 83–4,
88–9
co-ordination, 66, 76, 82, 85, 87, 90–1
Cole, A., 131
collective bargaining, 48
collusion, 6, 88
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committees, work’s, 54
Communist Party, 15, 48, 54, 57, 162
competition policy, 6, 70
competitive advantage, 28, 99, 105, 110,
112
competitive pressures, 10, 33, 93–4, 105–6,
109, 121, 129
competitiveness, 13, 17, 63, 99, 143, 155
Conservative, 12, 15, 121, 148–9
consultants, industrial, 42, 45, 54
containerization, 24, 137
‘creative class’, 150–1
DDUJFW (Dundee and District Union
of Jute and Flax Workers), 15, 36, 43,
47–51, 53–6, 59, 161
de-globalization, 21–2, 31
de-industrialization, 32, 137, 142, 144
‘declinist’, 4, 12, 32–3, 106
delegates, work’s, 53–7
depression (interwar), 14, 18, 22
Distribution of Industry Act, 5, 19, 119,
122, 138, 157
diversification strategies, 94, 111–13
double day shift, 22, 41, 43, 45, 49–51
Douglasfield Works, 43, 176
Dundee and District Local Employment
Committee, 38
Dundee Chamber of Commerce, 15,
18–19, 38, 71–4, 83, 161, 181
Dundee City Council, 57, 90–1, 122, 138,
146, 149, 152
Dundee Corporation, 39, 43
Dundee Jute and Linen Goods Merchants
Association, 73, 87
Dundee Port Authority, 72
Dundee Social Union, 12
Dundee Trade Development Committee,
19
Economic Development Committee
(Dundee), 122
economic growth, 25, 70, 105–6, 109
Edinburgh (government), 7, 63, 122, 150,
153
EEC, 25, 111, 126–7
EFTA (European Free Trade Association),
124
employment
protecting, 85–8
public sector, 153
employment policy, 4, 119, 145
Fenwick, Margaret, 36, 40, 42–3, 54, 56–8,
174
Florida, R., 150
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade), 121–2, 133
gender, 7, 17, 36, 140, 162, 167, 204, 213
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade see
GATT
‘Gentleman’s Agreements’, 65, 81, 85–7,
158, 161
‘Golden Age’, 68, 109, 129, 136, 140, 147,
162–3
Gordon, E., 11
Harbour Board Trustees, 72
House of Commons, 15, 90
Howe, W. S., 29, 33, 41, 44, 46, 48, 90, 111
human relations, 44, 48
IJMA (Indian Jute Mills Association), 14
Indian competition, 6, 10–11, 17, 28–9, 33,
37, 75, 99
Indian imports, 16, 28, 67, 131
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Indian industry, 10, 13–14, 17, 23, 31
Indian jute goods, 10, 120
Indian Jute Mills Association see IJMA
industrial relations, 10, 48, 58, 129
industry, new, 19, 38, 43–4, 46, 51, 63, 74,
122, 126, 133, 162
innovation, 33, 41–2, 130
interests, collective, 71–2, 89
international competition, 2, 65, 80, 93–4,
97, 105, 116, 147
investment in machinery, 18, 67
JIB ( Jute Information Bureau), 88
Jute Control
abolition of, 60, 133
and Board of Trade, 79
and centralized buying, 79
and co-operation, 81
creation of, 7, 28, 132
and efficiency, 50
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and ‘Gentleman’s Agreements’, 85–6, 161
and imports, 27, 29, 33, 78, 81, 120, 124
and Jute Working Party, 122
and prices, 85–6, 124
and Restrictive Trade Practices Court, 90
Jute Industries ( Jute Industries Ltd)
and co-ordination, 90
and distribution, 66
and diversification, 97
formation of, 13, 18
and Jute Wages Structure, 47
and merchanting, 75, 115
and ‘modernization’, 41
and nurseries, 39
and polypropylene, 107
and rationalization, 96, 102
and shift working, 41, 45–6
and strike action, 56
and technical developments, 18
and ‘three wise men’, 76, 160
and training, 40
and tufted carpet, 97, 107
and wages, 45
and welfare, 44
Jute Industry Research Association, 77
Jute Information Bureau ( JIB), 88
Jute Wages Structure, 36, 45–7, 51, 58, 60,
62
217
Jute Working Party
and employment, 68
and industrial efficiency, 35
and Jute Wages Structure, 46
and labour productivity, 34
and labour relations, 48, 58
Jute Working Party Report
and Indian competition, 37
and labour productivity, 33
and labour relations, 58
and ‘modernization’, 35
Juteopolis, 9, 141, 146, 153, 155, 161
labour demand, 61, 67
Labour Party, 2, 15, 35, 60, 139, 142–3, 169
labour productivity, 17, 33–4, 42, 44, 47–8,
53, 60, 150
higher, 6, 17, 35
increased, 17, 46
labour shortage, 36, 38, 41, 45, 49, 58, 74,
122
labour usage, 6, 35
Lazonick, W., 110
linoleum, 28–9, 95, 97, 132
LJA (London Jute Association), 77, 80, 87
local economy, 2, 9, 135–6, 139, 141–2, 148
London (govenment), 7, 15–16, 63, 122–3,
138, 143, 153, 159–60
Low & Bonar Ltd
and distribution, 66, 106
and diversification, 101, 113
formation of, 14
and investment, 101–2
and merchanting, 98
and non-woven textiles, 112
and nurseries, 39
and polypropylene, 107, 110, 113
and rationalization, 96, 101
and shift working, 41
and tufted carpet, 107
unrelated diversification, 111–12
Manhattan Works, 39, 81, 103
married women, 11, 19, 39, 49–51, 144
Masrani, S., 75
McDowall and Draper, 81, 156
Ministry of Health, 39
Ministry of Labour, 21, 38, 201
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modernization, 34–5, 41, 46, 59–60, 133,
155, 158
Monopolies and Mergers Commission, 78
Moore, B., 139
mothers, working, 39, 49
National Plan, 70, 180, 202
National Union of General and Municipal
Workers (NUGMW), 47–8
NCR (National Cash Registers), 37, 126,
139, 142–3, 147
North Sea Oil, 113–16, 157
NUGMW (National Union of General and
Municipal Workers), 47–8, 178
OECD, 32, 173, 210
Olson, M., 88
Pakistan, 22–3, 26–7, 78–9, 94
partition (of India and Pakistan), 22, 27, 78
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Peterhead, 114–15
policy
industrial, 145, 149
urban, 144
polypropylene, 93, 107, 112–13, 117,
131–2, 142, 155–6, 158–9
as an alternative fibre, 6, 24
and carpet backing, 30
Polytape Ltd, 107, 110
Porter, M., 71
post-war boom, 2, 14, 158
Precognition Statement, 87
price-collusion, 125
price competition, 65, 70, 74–5, 81, 94–5,
98
price fixing, 33, 75, 86–7, 89, 125, 161
prices, relative, 24–5, 27–8
productivity, 33–4, 38, 41, 45, 53, 150
protection
arguments for, 34, 131
and the Board of Trade, 121
debates over, 90, 121, 157
and India, 7, 11, 15, 37, 70, 120, 130–1,
133
and investment strategies, 94, 131
and Jute Control, 59, 119, 124, 132
and Jute Working Party Report, 120, 122
and market substition, 131, 156
political economy of, 128–9
public discussion of, 29, 129
reduction of, 7, 29–30, 33, 60, 124–5,
131, 155
removal of, 119, 121
trade union support of, 48–9
and unemployment, 19, 157
‘protectionism’, 2, 11, 15, 119, 123, 127,
130, 162
quotas, 27, 78–9, 122, 126–8, 130
rationalization, 5, 18, 59, 67–8, 95–6, 100,
102, 120–1
re-brandings, 146, 151
redundancies, 42–3, 56, 61, 103–4, 110,
142, 144
Regeneration, 145, 152
regional policy, 138–40, 144, 163
‘Research and Development’, 35, 139
Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 84–5, 87, 124
Restrictive Trade Practices Court, 6, 84–8,
90, 124, 161
Restrictive Trade Practices Court case, 74,
77, 80, 88–9, 95, 158
Rhodes, J., 139
Robertson, Lewis, 76–8, 80, 82–3, 85–7,
145, 160–1, 177
Rose, M., 128
Scottish Development Agency, 78, 144
Scottish Enterprise, 145
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
(SIMD), 151
Scottish Office, 73, 89, 91, 127–8, 159
Scottish Power Loom Tenters Society, 40
Scottish Union of Powerloom Tenters, 52
Secretary of State for Scotland, 114, 122,
124
shift work, 45, 49
Sidlaw Industries
and Aberdeen, 114
and Aberdeen Service Company, 113
and diversification, 110
and electronics and computing, 116
and engineering, 113
investment, 101
and modernization, 100
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and North Sea Oil, 114–15 local, 5, 66

and packaging industry, 116–17 and protection, 19
and polypropylene, 110 real, 153
and rationalization, 100 and regional policy, 139
reorganization, 108 rising, 106, 142–4
and unrelated diversification, 113 threat of, 7
Sidlaw of Scotland, 102, 108 union membership, 54–5
Sidlaw Tile Services, 108, 110 United Kingdom Jute Goods Association,
Sime, John, 15, 17 87
social settlement, 4, 119 USA, 9, 23–4, 103, 112, 131, 144
Special Areas, 19, 119, 138
specialization, 68, 71, 80, 93–4, 105–6, 117 wage levels, 13, 16, 34, 46, 61, 136
staples (export industries), 1–2, 4–5, 10, 14, Wages Council, 13, 59–60
32, 140 Walker, Michael, 102
substitution effects, 66, 97, 105 Walker, W., 17, 38
Symeonidis, G., 67 Walker, William, 17, 36, 38, 45, 47, 76–8,
Synthetic Fabrics (Scotland) Ltd, 107, 110 83, 85, 160
synthetic fibres, 6, 75, 80, 107, 109–11, 117, Williams, B., 33, 125
159 Williamson, O., 98
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tariffs, 15, 25, 79, 86, 89, 91, 123, 126 ‘capabilities of ’, 42–3, 60
Tay Valley Plan, 152 declining role in jute industry, 42–3
Tayside Regional Council, 128
dominance in jute industry, 3, 7, 10–11,
technological change, 12, 33, 65, 155–6
36–7
Tedlow, R. S., 98
and double day shift, 49–51
‘Three Wise Men’, 76–7, 80, 86, 129, 145,
and employment in health and educa-
160–1
tion, 140
Timex, 37, 118, 139, 143–4
and equal pay, 62
Tomlinson, B. R., 31
and labour shortage, 37, 120
trade, free, 2, 11–12, 15, 30, 121, 133, 157,
and night shift, 43
162
and redundancies, 42
Trade Adjustment, 81, 156
trade liberalization, 130, 133, 160 replaced by men, 17
training, 35, 40, 145–6, 150 and shorter working week, 53
tufted carpet, 97, 103, 107 and trade unions, 36
Turok, I., 150 and unemployment, 132, 151
and wages, 46, 61
unemployment work study, 46–8, 51, 59–60
and the AJSM, 142 working conditions, 36, 52
fears of, 7, 123, 127 Working Group, 89
high, 5, 138 works’ committees, 53, 55
levels of, 6 works’ delegates, 54, 56