The Sad Fall of Glasgow Shipbuilding

This is the city of Glasgow, a city that was once known as the global hub for shipbuilding where 20% of all ships in the world were built, more than any other city on earth. And it was the second most economically important city for the British empire only behind London.
But fast forward to today, Glasgow’s shipbuilding industry (and consequently UK’s shipbuilding industry) is nowhere to be seen, most of its companies went bust, and most of its shipyards became derelict alongside residential areas that lay abandoned.
So what happened? How did Glasgow and the UK’s shipbuilding industry rise and become so dominant? How did this city make global trade possible? How did a global shockwave manage to kill the entire industry and consequently the entire city? And lastly, how does this contribute to the growing social and health problems in the community? Including the Glasgow effect where sadly, most of its citizens die prematurely.
0:00 - Intro
1:17 - The Origin
4:05 - The Rise of Glasgow Shipbuilding
9:20 - Two World Wars
12:05 - The Fall of Glasgow Shipbuilding
18:10 - Deindustrialization, Urban Shrinkage, Early Death
Music by Epidemic Sound
Stock Footage by Storyblocks
#Glasgow #Shipbuilding #Doverhill
about economics explained, about Finance and how money works, on the rise and fall of Glasgow's shipbuilding industry, This is an economics/finance video

[@jimwright1148]

It was the guy from Scott's Greenock showed the Japanese how to build ships in a modular system and mirror image building for muti-ship contracts for identical sister ships,yet he never upgraded his own yards to do the same. I served my time in Scotts Cartsburn and Klondyke yards(1978-1982),the heavy machinery was ancient then!

[@arkadybron1994]

There are two reasons why Glasgow shipbuilding eventually failed. Failure of the Yards to modernise effectively, and the refusal in the final times, of the workforce to continue to live in poverty and be exploited by the rich.

[@MUSTASCH1O]

Very interesting thanks. A book I'm reading tells me Glasgow was a story told throughout the British shipbuilding industry. Interesting that a state enforced merger of the entire Glaswegian industry played a part in its ultimate demise. The same story is true for the British car industry after it was consolidated into British Leyland. I guess politicians are poor micromanagers.

[@kieranmilne7808]

Great video, currently working in the govan shipyard so appreciated someone covering this part of Glasgows history, cheers pal

[@wboyle9721]

Well presented Glasgow is gradually improving with new housing new company's moving in and retail is main employer in the city it has taken Glasgow 60 years to recover but Glasgow also re invents itself there are pockets of poverty still within the city that needs addressed Glasgow is a very vibrant city the population of greater Glasgow is over 1.2 million more people have just moved out towards the suburbs there are multiple regeration projects ongoing today and for the future this will take time glaswegians are very good people and tourists are now coming to Glasgow to see this great city

[@ems3663]

Very well-made and educational video. Keep up the good work.

[@alan2804]

No it isn’t, it is full of inaccuracies and photographs of other places. Whoever made this obviously hasn’t done their research properly.

[@waysidetavern]

Thanks for an accurate video on Glasgow's shipbuilding industry and it's sad decline. Very interesting. 👍👍

[@MB-ez7lf]

Brilliantly researched and presented. Thank you

[@nicks4934]

Great video

[@Viking88Power]

Great history

[@Leffe123]

Verry integrering video

[@L555HEP]

Glasgow built the ships that made the Empire great

[@DanXray-ww1hs]

The empire wasn't great!!!

[@alan2804]

You’ve got your information for this from where?

[@MB-ez7lf]

So well done. Who are you??

[@JimmyStewartjimmy]

Thank you for the exciting video. Hope you make more. It is sad, although not in Glasgow, the parody of the two Scottish administration ferries being built in Greenock. The cost to the taxpayer of Scotland’s ferry fiasco firm is approaching a ‘scandalous’ half a billion pounds, five years late, still not finished.

[@user-iu7ji8ik1s]

The unions killed the ship building the car manufacturers the steel works and the mines militants were the reason for their demise

[@tomhermens7698]

They never understood the word "quality" in Scotland. Only "cheap".

[@stephenwilson5043]

Cunard might disagree with you there having built a lot of their luxurious ocean liners here eg Queen Mary, Lusitania, QE2 etc

[@carltrotter7622]

The Cunard Queens of Clydebank disgree. The RMS Queen Mary - Still holds the record for the most people carried on any ship in history at any given time, 16,000 people. Also transported a significant fraction of the US troops that fought in WW2 alongside the RMS Queen Elizabeth. The RMS Queen Elizabeth - Still holds the record for the largest riveted ship ever built. The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) - Still holds the record for the most distance ever travelled by any ship in history, 6,000,000+ miles. And that's just 3 of the 30,000+ ships built on this river. In 1913 we produced 34% of all shipping by tonnage in the world. That's 1/3rd of global shipping output all on one river.

[@boyfromblackstuff7859]

Clyde built equated to a R R standard of ship building.

[@1gerard47]

What a load of nonsense you speak, Clyde built is two words that I used all over the world like R R.

[@Logies_right_hand]

@@carltrotter7622that’s incredible. Thanks for the information

[@markwoods1504]

Glasgow wasn't known as the second City of the British Empire that British City and Title was given to Liverpool .

[@michaelkelly9545]

Glasgow was named the second city of the empire in the 19th century. Not Liverpool

[@DessieTots]

No, during Queen Victoria’s rule, Glasgow was named as The Second City of the British Empire. Other contenders were Manchester and Birmingham. The only thing that Liverpool gave the former empire was ‘Cilla Black’.

[@satscotia]

The historical film footage in this documentary isn't even geographically accurate 😅.

[@walter77ify]

Some of the pictures and footage didn't match the narration, that's true, but he narrated a very concise and accurate story, so well done to him.