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The 20th Century saw a massive structural change to the face of the Scottish economy.
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The 20th Century saw a massive structural change to the face of the Scottish economy. The journey from the early 1900's where the Victorian inheritance of major industries like shipbuilding and construction of locomotives were dominant, to the rise and apparent demise of white collar industries in Scotland today has been a far from smooth one. At the turn of the 20th century the Scottish economy was somewhat unstable. The made to order capital investment products like the ships were over dependent on a healthy and thriving international market and quite simply if there were no orders then there were no jobs for the ordinary workers, no wages and so a poor standard of living and many times of uncertainty. This in turn had a knock on effect on Scotland's basic industries like coal, steel and textiles. The shipyards didn't need steel if they weren't building so the steel works had...
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