The South Wales Coal Industry, 1841-1875
Author : John Henry Morris
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 1958
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : John Henry Morris
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 1958
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : B. R. Mitchell
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 1984-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521265010
Provides an account of the economic development of the British coal industry from 1800 to the First World War.
Author : John Benson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1040245056
Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization. This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry.
Author : J. h Morris
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 1958
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Ivor Wilks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 131724074X
First published in 1984, this book provides the first full study of the carefully planned rising of south Wales miners and ironworkers in 1839 and of its collapse at the confrontation with soldiers of the 45th regiment of Newport. It examines not only the rising itself, but the factors that made it, if not inevitable, then likely. It argues that while the workers’ movement was an immediate response to the grim circumstances of the workplace, it was also deeply rooted in the centuries-old Welsh experience of repression. This title will be of particular interest to students of Victorian political and social history and well as the history of Wales.
Author : Louise Miskell
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 11,32 MB
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1786835010
This volume tells a story of Welsh industrial history different from the one traditionally dominated by the coal and iron communities of Victorian and Edwardian Wales. Extending the chronological scope from the early eighteenth- to the late twentieth-century, and encompassing a wider range of industries, the contributors combine studies of the internal organisation of workplace and production with outward-facing perspectives of Welsh industry in the context of the global economy. The volume offers important new insights into the companies, the employers, the markets and the money behind some of the key sectors of the Welsh economy – from coal to copper, and from steel to manufacturing – and challenges us to reconsider what we think of as constituting ‘industry’ in Wales.
Author : Richard Griffiths
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0708322913
This is the first book to examine in a systematic way the entrepreneurial society of the Welsh Valleys. Until now, almost everything written about the society created by the Welsh coal industry has been about the workers and the unions, and there has been a significant gap, which needed to be filled if a rounded picture of life in the south Wales valleys during the coal boom was to be achieved. The book looks at the various sources of wealth in the area - coal owning, railway building, possession of land in crucial areas, contracting, building, property development, shopkeeping - and at the various origins from which the first-generation entrepreneurs came. It then examines closely the networks of power and influence that built up among the second-generation entrepreneurs in the close and claustrophobic middle-class society of the Porth-Pontypridd area. Its method is to take one extended family central to that society, together with its vast network of friends and collaborators, and to examine in great detail, from original sources, the often hair-raising business methods of these people, as well as their conflicts of interest at times of industrial unrest. At the same time, the changes in Valleys life are mirrored in the history of this group: the original 'rags-to-riches' stories of so many of the first generation; the self-sufficient confidence of so many of the second generation, for whom the coal boom seemed bound to last for ever; and the gradual move, thereafter, out of the coal industry and down to the towns on the coast, just in time to avoid the decline of the industry.
Author : Edgar Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 1987-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 134906629X
This is the story of a major business enterprise. It describes the transformation of a small partnership, formed in 1759, into an international group, the scale of whose diverse activities has demanded the creation of a multi-divisional structure, supported by many specialist departments. Probably the most longeval of Britain's current manufacturing companies, GKN's history may be interpreted as a unique and revealing insight into Britain's industrial experience over past centuries.
Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807887900
In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of acculturation. In the first history of this exceptional community, Ronald Lewis explores how Welsh immigrants made a significant contribution to the development of the American coal industry and how their rapid and successful assimilation affected Welsh American culture. Lewis describes how Welsh immigrants brought their national churches, fraternal orders and societies, love of literature and music, and, most important, their own language. Yet unlike eastern and southern Europeans and the Irish, the Welsh--even with their "foreign" ways--encountered no apparent hostility from the Americans. Often within a single generation, Welsh cultural institutions would begin to fade and a new "Welsh American" identity developed. True to the perspective of the Welsh themselves, Lewis's analysis adopts a transnational view of immigration, examining the maintenance of Welsh coal-mining culture in the United States and in Wales. By focusing on Welsh coal miners, Welsh Americans illuminates how Americanization occurred among a distinct group of skilled immigrants and demonstrates the diversity of the labor migrations to a rapidly industrializing America.
Author : Roger Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1134221851
The authors use a long-wave framework to examine the historical evolution of British industrial capitalism since the late-18th century, and present a challenging and distinctive economic history of modern and contemporary Britain. The book is intended for undergraduate courses on the economic history of modern Britain within history, economic and social history, economic history and economic degree schemes, and economic theory courses.