I wrote this after reading James D. Young's excellent book, 'The Rousing Of The Scottish Working Class’. During the 19th century, trade unionists in England commonly referred to the situation north of the border as 'Sleepy Scotland', where drunkenness and sectarianism resulted in a passive working class, considered unable to challenge capitalism. The immense upheaval known as Red Clydeside put an end to that theory during the years of the First World War. To this day the legacy of Sleepy Scotland survives alongside the legend of Red Clyde.