ABSTRACT
Contemporary material for the future economic historian has multiplied in the last decade. Since 1947 a Government Report on “Industry and Employment in Scotland” has been issued every spring. Further factual and statistical detail is to be found in the annual Review published by the Clydesdale and North of Scotland Bank, in periodical supplements issued by The Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald and in the Reports of the Scottish Council. Two authoritative composite volumes, Scottish Industry (1953), edited by Oakley, and The Scottish Economy (1956), edited by Cairncross, cover much of the field. John Gollan’s Scottish Prospect is more sketchy, and critical from a “Leftish” standpoint. The Third Statistical Account, launched in 1951, will when complete give a detailed picture of social life comparable to those of its predecessors of a century and a century and a half ago.
