South Wales Miners
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 1975
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Robert Page Arnot
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Robert Page Arnot
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Page : 390 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Coal trade
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Author : Robert Page Arnot
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Robert Page Arnot
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1000963918
First published in 1967, South Wales Miners: Glowyr de Cymru is a vivid portrayal of contending personalities in the generation before the first world war, often set forth in their own words. Outstanding amongst them are the founder of the Labour Party., Keir Hardie and the young Liberal politician Winston Churchill whose successive ministerial duties brought him into close relation with the miners of South Wales. Out of the almost insurrectionary situation of 1910 in Glamorgan there has come a widespread belief that Churchill was responsible for the shooting down of Welsh miners and that Tonypandy in the Rhondda was once a scene of massacre. In destroying this picturesque myth, Page Arnot uncovers an array of facts that are stranger than this long-lived fiction and also richer in their interplay of personalities. Here, soberly, recorded, are the facts that could make a chronicle play with dramatis personae ranging from Monarch and Minister to mineowners and working miners who daily lives create the tensions of the time. Their national characteristics and their exceptional conditions, at home or in chapel, underground or on the surface, form one side of the picture, of which the other is furnished by the entrenched position of the associated coal owners. This book will be of interest to students of history, economics and labour studies.
Author : Robert Page Arnot
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Robert Page Arnot
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,6 MB
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1000927180
First published in 1975, South Wales Miners starts with the War of Empires, when nearly 50,000 Welsh miners, almost one-fifth of the total manpower of their coalfield, responded to the call and voluntarily enlisted in the British armed forces. The author uncovers how the coalowners in the meantime took advantage of the war emergency to deny the remaining miners a fair recompense for their toil and of the bitter strife that followed. The book tells the story of what led up to the General Strike and here the author uses hitherto hidden sources of information. The picture is revealed of what was a virtual conspiracy between the Baldwin-Churchill Government and the mineowners, not only to cut wages and lengthen hours, but to cripple British trade unionism. When the miners held out through a seven-month lockout the efforts of these highly placed conspirators recoiled on their own heads and on the whole economy of British Empire. This book will be of interest to students of history, labour studies, economics and political science.
Author : Ness Edwards
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Coal miners
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Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Robert Page Arnot
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Page : 390 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Coal trade
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