DOLE ON CLYDEBANK
By Philip Wade
1972Philip Wade Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
MARTIN MAYER There were a staggering 55,000 redundancies on Clydeside in the ten years from 1958 to 1968.
These figures, which leave out the thousands of jobs lost since the Tories took office two years ago, have come from researchers at Glasgow University.
Total manufacturing employment in the area-which includes the industrial heart of Scotland-dropped by 7 per cent, or 22,000.
This is because although 55,000 jobs were lost, only 33,000 new jobs were provided. Most of the jobs lost involved men, but less than two-thirds of the new jobs were for male workers.
The researchers found that local manufacturers played little part in bringing any new jobs to the area and found most of Clydeside's economy controlled by external firms.