ABSTRACT
The city is undergoing a difficult process of adjustment to the contraction of its traditional economic base and the rise of a new global economic order. The city is undergoing a difficult process of adjustment to the contraction of its traditional economic base and the rise of a new global economic order. In two recent analyses of urban economic health Glasgow was ranked 107th of 117 major European cities and 256th of 280 British local labour market areas. Population statistics for the first part of the twentieth century provided an early warning of the city’s faltering economic prosperity. Glasgow was one of the first large cities of the world to cease to grow. The advent of net migration from Glasgow was symptomatic of economic difficulties, which the artificial boom conditions of World War I masked but did not resolve.
