jute

Question 1

what percentage of scots were employed by the jute industry and how many mills were there

Answer 1

jute mills employed 25% of all male workers and 67% of all female workers

there were 70 jute mills

Question 2

prior to the war what was the biggest jute factory and how many people did it employ

Answer 2

Camper down was the biggest jute factory, employing over 14,000 people

Question 3

in the days before the great war what was jute mills faced with

Answer 3

feirse competition from foreign factories in india particularly around calcutta

Question 4

during the war what and how many where dundee mills producing that were so important to the war effort

Answer 4

sandbags
dundee mills were producing 6 million sandbags a month

Question 5

what happened alongside the increased in production and what protected the industry from foreign competition

Answer 5

alongside increased production profits sky rocketed
the government introduced a ban on jute products being processed in calcutta which protected the industry

Question 6

what paper and how did this paper describe jute

Answer 6

the dundee advertiser stated ‘Jute fibres have turned into strands of gold’

Question 7

what was the jute industry like after the war?
what was lifted which made this worse

Answer 7

the jute industry went into decline as mills (particularly in dundee) were in need of investment and repair to make them competitive
the trade restrictions in place were lifted from foreign competitors in india and they began to sell on the international market

Question 8

what happened as a result of dundee mills being unable to compete with foreign companys

Answer 8

mass unemployment and deep social misery followed in dundee by 1932 there were 37,000 unemployed jute workers in dundee