The Dundee jute industry and the Empire.

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The Dundee jute industry and the Empire.

In considering the question of the benefits of empire to the Dundee jute industry, all aspects of the jute trade in Dundee will be discussed alongside the effect of empire on them. Starting with the raw material jute, where it is grown and by whom, the purchase and the transport of the jute to the Dundee factories. Factory owners, workers, working conditions, and manufacturing equipment will all be discussed along with the products produced from the jute plant, the world markets for these products and the competition for these markets from countries across Europe and the world. The opportunities open to industry and government through trade with both the formal and 'informal' empire, the views of historians on this matter and the importance of this trade to Dundee. Finally, both the benefits of empire to Dundee and the damaging effects of empire to Dundee and its jute industry will be compared and a conclusion achieved. Throughout, the views of historians, primary source documents and charts, relating to the question will be included.

Jute is a tough, brittle fibre used in the textile industry. It comes from the Corchorus capsularis plant,