why heavy industry declined after the war

Question 1

Competition from other developing industries caused decline

Answer 1

For example coal mining saw competition from the developing oil gas and electric industries with that the demand for coal within people homes was cut

Question 2

Withdrawal of government support also caused decline

Answer 2

Scottish industries had to resume to old fashioned ways of working and this was no match for the new industrial world

Question 3

Lack of investment and poor management also resulted in decline

Answer 3

Scotlands major industries where reliant on old run down machinery and foreign competition forced prices down. Many businesses got away with underpaying workers and this lead to strikes

Question 4

Foreign competition impacted decline of heavy industries

Answer 4

Shipbuilding for example saw feirs competition from German and Japanese companies resulting in unemployment

Question 5

A lack of demand for products hugely important to the war effort caused decline

Answer 5

With shipbuilding in decline Scottish steel was no longer in high demand and many munitions factories closed down after returning to there pre war owners

Question 6

foreign prices and efficiant production of goods led to the decline of some industrys such as the jute industry

Answer 6

When the Indian jute industry resumed and prices fell Dundee based factories couldn’t compete and this resulted in huge levels of unemployment