Download or read book The South Wales Miners written by Ben Curtis and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The booming coal industry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the main reason behind the creation of modern south Wales and its miners were central to shaping the economics, politics and society of south Wales during the twentieth century. This book explores the history of these miners between 1964 and 1985, covering the concerted run-down of the coal industry under the Wilson government, the growth of miners’ resistance, and the eventual defeat of the epic strike of 1984-5. Their interactions with the wider trade union movement and society during these years meant the miners were amongst the most important strategically-located sections of the British workforce during this time. The South Wales Miners is the first full-length academic study of the miners and their union in the later twentieth century, in a tumultuous period of crisis and struggle.
Download or read book South Wales Miners Glowyr de Cymru written by Robert Page Arnot and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Fed written by Francis. Hywel and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fed written by Hywel Francis and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1980 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core of this full length history is the momentous period from the General Strike of 1926 to the nationalization of the mines in January 1947 ... To the treatment of the post Second World War period the authors have added a final chapter assessing the achievements and the problems of the nationalized industry, as well as the role of the miners in the upsurge of industrial militancy that characterized the sixties and seventies." In South Wales Miners' Federation became the South Wales area of the NUM.
Download or read book The South Wales Miners written by Ben Curtis and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political history of the south Wales miners, their industry and society, in a tumultuous period of crisis and struggle.
Download or read book North Wales Miners written by Keith Gildart and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly analysis of social, political and industrial change in the working-class mining communities of North Wales, 1945-1996, comprising an appreciation of the miner's quest for self-identity and the contribution of trade union activities to changing the face of 20th century British politics. 14 black-and-white photographs.
Download or read book The History of the South Wales Miners written by Ness Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the South Wales Miners Federation written by Ness Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Wales Miners written by R. Page Arnot and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Wales miners a history written by R. P. Arnot and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Wales Miners Glowyr de Cymru written by Robert Page Arnot and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Miners of South Wales written by Eric Wyn Evans and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the South Wales Miners written by Ness EDWARDS (Right Hon.) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book These Poor Hands written by Bill Jones and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2002-11-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales', was first published in June 1939. It was an instant bestseller, and its fame catapulted its author into the front rank of 'proletarian writers'. B. L. Coombes, an English-born migrant, had lived in the Vale of Neath since before the First World War, but only turned to writing in the 1930s as a way of communicating the plight of the miners and their communities to the wider world. "These Poor Hands" presents, in a documentary style, the working life of the miner as well as the author's experiences in the lock-outs of 1921 and 1926. It demonstrates Coombes' desire to offer an accurate account of the lives of miners and their families, and carries a sincere moral charge in its description of the waste of human potential that is industrial capitalism in decline. Long out of print, "These Poor Hands" has been recognised for over sixty years as the classic miner's autobiography.
Download or read book The History of the South Wales Miners written by Ness Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Wales Miners Glowyr de Cymru A History of the South Wales Miners Federation 1848 1914 Illustrated written by Robert Page Arnot and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the South Wales Miners written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
