ABSTRACT
Dundee, a city of approximately 160,000 people, is located on the east coast of Scotland, north of the main central belt axis. Originally developed as a port, the city’s industrial heritage was founded on the successful growth of the jute industry during the 19th century and it maintained its status as Scotland’s fourth city after the World War II by attracting a range of new manufacturing employers, including Timex and NCR. Over the past two decades, however, the Dundee economy has been adversely affected by global and national economic forces, with the result that much of its traditional industrial base has been depleted. The loss of traditional sources of employment has in turn accentuated the indicators of multiple deprivation from which the city has increasingly suffered. Green (1995) identifies Dundee as one of 17 out of 280 British local labour markets placed in the top quartile on all five measures of spatial segregation of the unemployed from the labour market.
