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Download or read book After Coal written by Tom Hansell and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when fossil fuels run out? How do communities and cultures survive? Central Appalachia and south Wales were built to extract coal, and faced with coal's decline, both regions have experienced economic depression, labor unrest, and out-migration. After Coal focuses on coalfield residents who chose not to leave, but instead remained in their communities and worked to build a diverse and sustainable economy. It tells the story of four decades of exchange between two mining communities on opposite sides of the Atlantic, and profiles individuals and organizations that are undertaking the critical work of regeneration. The stories in this book are told through interviews and photographs collected during the making of After Coal, a documentary film produced by the Center for Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University and directed by Tom Hansell. Considering resonances between Appalachia and Wales in the realms of labor, environment, and movements for social justice, the book approaches the transition from coal as an opportunity for marginalized people around the world to work toward safer and more egalitarian futures.
Book Synopsis Welsh Americans by : Ronald L. Lewis
Download or read book Welsh Americans written by Ronald L. Lewis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Welsh Coal Trade in 1923 by : Edgar Clarke Huckabee Soule
Download or read book Welsh Coal Trade in 1923 written by Edgar Clarke Huckabee Soule and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Welsh Coal Trade in 1922 by : John Robins Bradley
Download or read book Welsh Coal Trade in 1922 written by John Robins Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From the Cradle to the Coalmine by : Ceri Thompson
Download or read book From the Cradle to the Coalmine written by Ceri Thompson and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely believed that the employment of children underground in coal mines ended in 1842. This book, in contrast, shows that young people remained an important part of the workforce up until the virtual demise of the industry in the late twentieth century. The Children’s Employment Commission was established in 1840 to expose the conditions under which children had to work underground; as we might expect, public opinion was outraged by what came to light, and a law was passed to prevent all females and boys under the age of ten from working underground. However, the lack of inspectors made the law difficult to enforce, and many females and boys under ten continued to work illegally until Parliament made school attendance compulsory in the 1860s. This popular and accessible book is a rich source of information about the working lives of children and young people in the Welsh coalfields, richly illustrated to include extensive work from Amgueddfa Cymru’s photographic archives.
Book Synopsis Women in Welsh Coal Mining by : Norena Shopland
Download or read book Women in Welsh Coal Mining written by Norena Shopland and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We tend to think of coal mining as predominantly a male occupation, with women confined to roles as wives and support workers. Women worked at the coal face for many years before they were banned in 1842. However, mere legislation was not going to stop them - many continued to work underground, with mine owners making little attempt to stop them due to the low wages paid to women. Some would dress and pass as men to fool visiting inspectors. For the majority though, they worked on the pit brow where they received the coal, cleaned, sorted and cut it to uniform size. Dirty, laborious work, including many accidents and deaths, done by women and girls, some as young as 10 years old. Society was appalled, and harshly criticized women (but not men) for working in such environments and so close to male workers. Find a respectable job, like domestic service, they were told - despite the fact that few jobs for women were available in such industrialized areas. Like the more famous Pit Brow Lasses of Lancashire, the Tip Girls were castigated for having ‘unsexed’ themselves, accused of immorality, of being unfit wives and mothers and society went on a mission to save them. But the Tip Girls did not want to be saved. For nearly a hundred years, these women fought society and Parliament to keep their jobs and clear their reputations. Norena Shopland tells their story for the first time. New research from census returns and newspaper accounts have uncovered over 1,500 named women who worked in the Welsh coalfields – only a few could be included in this book - but it shows how much more work is needed in order for us to continue to celebrate these remarkable women.
Book Synopsis The South Wales Coal Trade and Its Allied Industries from the Earliest Days to the Present Time by : Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil.)
Download or read book The South Wales Coal Trade and Its Allied Industries from the Earliest Days to the Present Time written by Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil.) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Welsh Coal Mines by : W. Gerwyn Thomas
Download or read book Welsh Coal Mines written by W. Gerwyn Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The South Wales Coal Industry, 1841-1875, by J.H. Morris and L. J. Williams by : John Henry Morris
Download or read book The South Wales Coal Industry, 1841-1875, by J.H. Morris and L. J. Williams written by John Henry Morris and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women in Welsh Coal Mining by : Norena Shopland
Download or read book Women in Welsh Coal Mining written by Norena Shopland and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We tend to think of coal mining as predominantly a male occupation, with women confined to roles as wives and support workers. Women worked at the coal face for many years before they were banned in 1842. However, mere legislation was not going to stop them - many continued to work underground, with mine owners making little attempt to stop them due to the low wages paid to women. Some would dress and pass as men to fool visiting inspectors. For the majority though, they worked on the pit brow where they received the coal, cleaned, sorted and cut it to uniform size. Dirty, laborious work, including many accidents and deaths, done by women and girls, some as young as 10 years old. Society was appalled, and harshly criticized women (but not men) for working in such environments and so close to male workers. Find a respectable job, like domestic service, they were told - despite the fact that few jobs for women were available in such industrialized areas. Like the more famous Pit Brow Lasses of Lancashire, the Tip Girls were castigated for having ‘unsexed’ themselves, accused of immorality, of being unfit wives and mothers and society went on a mission to save them. But the Tip Girls did not want to be saved. For nearly a hundred years, these women fought society and Parliament to keep their jobs and clear their reputations. Norena Shopland tells their story for the first time. New research from census returns and newspaper accounts have uncovered over 1,500 named women who worked in the Welsh coalfields – only a few could be included in this book - but it shows how much more work is needed in order for us to continue to celebrate these remarkable women.
Book Synopsis The Coals of South Wales with Special Reference to the Origin and Distribution of Anthracite by : Sir Aubrey Strahan
Download or read book The Coals of South Wales with Special Reference to the Origin and Distribution of Anthracite written by Sir Aubrey Strahan and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Wales Coal Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Geology of the South Wales Coal-field by : Geological Survey of Great Britain
Download or read book The Geology of the South Wales Coal-field written by Geological Survey of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A treatise on the coal field of South Wales, explanatory of a new theory of the position of the measures therein by : Frederick Moses
Download or read book A treatise on the coal field of South Wales, explanatory of a new theory of the position of the measures therein written by Frederick Moses and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A World Without Work by : Eli Ginzberg
Download or read book A World Without Work written by Eli Ginzberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written just before the beginning of World War II, this is an early example of field research into human resources by one of the pioneers in the area. Ginzberg investigates why so many long-term unemployed coal miners in South Wales remained in their villages rather than relocating to other areas of the United Kingdom where jobs were more plentiful. The results of his work, originally published in 1942, remain of value both as a record of an era, an example of communities in distress, and a model of failed social policy.
Book Synopsis Welsh Coal Mines by : E. W. Gerwyn Thomas
Download or read book Welsh Coal Mines written by E. W. Gerwyn Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From the Cradle to the Coalmine by : Ceri Thompson
Download or read book From the Cradle to the Coalmine written by Ceri Thompson and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely believed that the employment of children underground in coal mines ended in 1842. This book, in contrast, shows that young people remained an important part of the workforce up until the virtual demise of the industry in the late twentieth century. The Children's Employment Commission was established in 1840 to expose the conditions under which children had to work underground; as we might expect, public opinion was outraged by what came to light, and a law was passed to prevent all females and boys under the age of ten from working underground. However, the lack of inspectors made the law difficult to enforce, and many females and boys under ten continued to work illegally until Parliament made school attendance compulsory in the 1860s. This popular and accessible book is a rich source of information about the working lives of children and young people in the Welsh coalfields, richly illustrated to include extensive work from Amgueddfa Cymru's photographic archives.
