New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History

New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History
ISBN-10
1786835029
ISBN-13
9781786835024
Category
History
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2019-12-15
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Author
Louise Miskell

Description

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.

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