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dc.contributor.authorHighland, A. G.
dc.coverage.spatial443en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-08T11:12:05Z
dc.date.available2012-06-08T11:12:05Z
dc.date.issued1989
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/2689
dc.description.abstractWithin these 100 years, 1860-1960, in the east of Scotland, a highly specialised woodworking industry closely associated with flax and jute manufacturing, grew from modest beginnings to a position of some importance in the economy of this country. Eventually it declined to a point of virtual extinction leaving few traces of the unique skills and innovatory processes it once employed. The principal products of this industry, bobbins and shuttles, have been fundamental to the crafts of spinning and weaving for thousands of years but the industrialisation of the textile trade in the 19th century stimulated a demand for very large quantities of these components manufactured to engineering standards of precision. Consequently there emerged in mid-century an industry which, in the early years, served the flax and jute mills of Scotland and later, the far larger operations in India which by 1914, had achieved the world leadership in jute manufacturing. This research sought to examine the reasons for the growth and decline of this Scottish trade, its unusual methods and remarkable skills and the long-lasting connection with India it enjoyed. The investigations were centred on the Gateside Mills, a firm in Fife typical of those involved, whose records originated in the late 19th century. This material together with evidence from other sources provided not only an insight into the industry overall and the working conditions of those employed, but also an account of the conduct of a comparatively small company with extensive overseas trading interests, in times of peace and war.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subject.lccHD9869.W7H5
dc.subject.lcshTextile industry--Scotlanden_US
dc.titleGateside Mills : the Scottish bobbin and shuttle trade in its British and international setting, 1860-1960en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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