67 The result, however, was the transformation of much of the old town - as the better-off residents and then the municipal buildings moved west - into a hugely overcrowded, fetid, dangerous and disease-ridden slum. Because of this feature of Scott (.)Ĥ Massive immigration from the Scottish countryside and especially from Ireland was both a condition and a consequence of the city’s rapid industrialization and expansion. 68 Friedrich Engels, Condition of the Working Class, ed.67 In one twelve-day period in 1847, no fewer than 12,940 poor Irish landed directly in Glasgow or in (.).
