ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates upon the economic problems of the city and the policies which have been devised to confront them. The economic problems, however, can only really be understood within the context of the environmental and social problems which parallel them. In terms of employment three quite clear trends have emerged in the economy of Clydeside since the 1950s. Explanations of the city's economic decline have suggested that it is disadvantaged by concentrating upon the labour-intensive elements in manufacturing industry so that it has been particularly vulnerable in periods of high wage inflation, and it has correspondingly low levels of investment per worker compared with national trends. The multiplicity of policies and agencies developed for the economic regeneration of Clydeside has inevitably attracted a great deal of interest. This chapter distinguishes between old and new policies in Clydeside.
