Glasgow: Changes in Industry

www.scottish-enterprise.com/
sedotcom_home/about_se/
local_enterprise_companies/
glasgow/glasgow-industryemploymentprofile.htm?
siblingtoggle=1

Information Level D

The industry and employment profile of modern Glasgow.

Who are the key employers in modern Glasgow?
What is the biggest Services sector?

www.glasgoweconomicfacts.com/

Information Level D

Economic facts about Glasgow since 2000.

Find facts and figures about unemployment, population and the number of economically active people in each Glasgow City Council ward.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow

Information Level D

A description and analysis of modern Glasgow. In the menu click on Economy to find out about industry.

Glasgow now accounts for well over 60% of Scotland's manufactured exports. What are the city’s particular strengths?

www.seeglasgow.com/glasgow-the-brand/
tourismstrategy/tourism-today-tomorrow

Information Level D/E

Glasgow Tourism, Today and Tomorrow.

Why has Glasgow grown as a tourist destination?

www.theglasgowstory.com/
story.php?id=TGSBE
Information Level D

A historical account of Glasgow’s changing industries.

How do the industries of The Rising Burgh 1560s – 1770s compare to The Industrial Revolution 1770s – 1830s?

www.scan.org.uk/exhibitions/
blackhistory/blackhistory_3.htm

Information Level D

The Tobacco Lords.
Original maps, drawings and letters.

How did Glasgow benefit from the Tobacco trade?
How was Glasgow involved with the Slave Trade?

www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/
enlightenment/
features_enlightenment_industry.shtml

Information Level E

The Industrial Revolution in Scotland.

The chemical revolution, the commercial revolution, the tobacco trade, the Atlantic trade, new inventions, new industries.

Why were David Dale and James Watt important?

www.mitchelllibrary.org/
virtualmitchell/index.php?a=subject

Information Level C

Women workers.
Industry.
Smoke.
Engineering.

Click on any of these subjects to find old photos about them.