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Author : W. Gerwyn Thomas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
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:
Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807887900
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
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.
Author : Ben Curtis
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783165553
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
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 413 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.
Author : Ceri Thompson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 178316154X
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
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.
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Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Coal Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1955-62 include: Mining guidebook and buying directory.
Author : Ray Lawrence
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book The Coal Mines of South Wales written by Ray Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Cornwell
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ISBN 13 : 9781843061090
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Collieries of South Wales written by John Cornwell and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume portrays bygone collieries with photographs on the surface and underground of an industry now virtually non-existent and just a memory.
Author : Welsh Mining
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Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Treatise on Welsh Mining Its Past History, Present Position, and Future Prospects written by Welsh Mining and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Henry Morris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
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:
Author : Norena Shopland
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 139907525X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
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.
Author : E. W. Gerwyn Thomas
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Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
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:
Author : Erin Ann Thomas
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0874218659
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Coal in our Veins written by Erin Ann Thomas and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2012-05-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Coal in Our Veins, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of her book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utah—where they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions, two of the worst mining disasters in American history—and the history of coal development in Utah form the second part. Then Thomas investigates coal mining and communities in West Virginia, near her East Coast home, looking at the Sago Mine collapse and more widespread impacts of mining, including population displacement, mountain top removal, coal dust dispersal, and stream pollution, flooding, and decimation. The book's final part moves from Washington D.C.—and an examination of coal, CO2, and national energy policy—back to Utah, for a tour of a coal mine, and a consideration of the Crandall Canyon mine cave-in, back to Wales and the closing of the oldest operating deep mine in the world and then to a look at energy alternatives, especially wind power, in West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Author : Cornelius McLeod Percy
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Mining in the Victorian Era written by Cornelius McLeod Percy and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Hansell
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
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.
Author : Anthony Edward Christian Hare
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Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Anthracite Coal Industry of the Swansea District written by Anthony Edward Christian Hare and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham James
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ISBN 13 : 9781320023863
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Welsh Coal written by Graham James and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual record of life and work in the Welsh mining communities throughout its history including images and analysis of major mining disasters.
Author : Ray Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912060597
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Bradwell's Images of Coal Mining in South Wales written by Ray Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
