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...economically. Rather, it was a ‘county on the move’, spearheading Scotland’s ‘new industrial revolution’, with modern industries envisaged to replace the declining traditional sectors of mining, textiles and shipbuilding (Clark, 2021). This optimism was due to the opening of a British Motor Corporation (BMC) plant in 1960, and the takeover of the Telegraph...

...economic situation in Greenock continued to deteriorate. Between 1976 and 1980, 4,580 redundancies were notified in the area and, by 1981, there were 18 unemployed people for every job advertised. Female unemployment was 13.3 per cent, fifty per cent higher than the Scottish figure of 9.6 per cent. It was within this context of decline that the Lee Jeans workers were told...

...economic trends that affect our personal learning potential. I also had to consider my own learning ability. From workplace to higher education study I will never forget my first day at Glasgow Polytechnic (now Glasgow Caldeonian University), better known as ‘the Poly’, on 1 October 1991. I arrived late; all of the new first year social science students were meeting...