Quote Originally Posted by robbo176 View Post
here are a couple more interesting links

http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/2828
The above link is quite good. It touches on how the city's ruling class divided and ruled and kept wage costs down by:

1. Religious segregation.

2. Owning vast tracts of land and property - The merchants and ship owners also owned vast tracts of land around the city and with coherence with the council did not allow other forms of industry to form that would compete with the core warehousing and shipping industries.

It was not until the 1920/30s that new diverse industries came into the city in any volume, paying more than traditional industries, and new art deco factories were built on the outskirts. Post WW2, the car factories came.