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South Wales was one of the main centres of the Industrial Revolution in Britain but the story of the rapid growth of an industrial society there has not yet been fully told, since much of the work done has consisted of articles rather than books.
This volume brings together a selection of important contributions hitherto only accessible in a large number of scattered periodicals. These articles have been selected to present a considered sequence and are preceded by an introduction which puts the story of the industrialization of Wales into perspective. They deal firstly with the problems of population and migration then with the basic industries of iron, coal, tinplate and copper. These are followed by essays on banking, and the volume concludes with contributions on trade unionism and building. This is by no means merely the story of regional development since the book has a wider appeal; a number of the articles are concerned with the links with America and with the place of Wales in the Atlantic economy. Amongst the authors are the late Sir Lewis Namier and some of the leading writers on the history of modern Wales including Brinley Thomas and A. H. Dodd.
List of contents
Preface Introduction: Industrial South Wales, 1750–1914 Part One: Population 1. The Peopling of the Hinterland and Port of Cardiff, 1801–1914 (Economic History Review, XVII (1947) 2. The Character of Welsh Emigration to the United States to 1840 (From The character of early Welsh emigration to the United States, University of Wales Press, 1956) 3. The Migration of Labour into the Glamorganshire Coalfield, 1861–1911 (Economica, X (1930), 275–94) Part Two: Industry 4. Anthony Bacon, M.P., an Eighteenth-century Merchant (Journal of Economic and Business History, II (1929), 20–70) 5. The Tinplate Maker and Technical Change (Explorations in Entrepreneurial History, VII (1957), 1–11) 6. The Development and Decline of the Non-ferrous Metal Smelting Industries in South Wales (Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1956), 78–115) Part Three: Banking 7. Early Banking in Cardiff (Economic History Review, XVIII (1948), 84–90) 8.Bank of England Branch Discounting, 1826–59 (Economica, XXV (1958), 230–45) 9. The History of the Newport and Caerleon Savings Bank, 1839–88 (Economic History Review, 2nd series, II (1949), 188–99) Part Four: Labour 10. ‘Scotch Cattle’ and Early Trade Unionism in Wales (Economic History, I (1928), 385–93) 11. The South Wales Sliding Scale (Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, XXVIII (1960), 161–76) Part Five: Housing 12. Housebuilding in the South Wales Coalfield, 1851–1913 (Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, XXIV (1956), 289–300) Index
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W.E Minchinton
Summary
South Wales was one of the main centres of the Industrial Revolution in Britain but the story of the rapid growth of an industrial society there has not yet been fully told, since much of the work done has consisted of articles rather than books.
This volume brings together a selection of important contributions hitherto only accessible in a large number of scattered periodicals. These articles have been selected to present a considered sequence and are preceded by an introduction which puts the story of the industrialization of Wales into perspective. They deal firstly with the problems of population and migration then with the basic industries of iron, coal, tinplate and copper. These are followed by essays on banking, and the volume concludes with contributions on trade unionism and building. This is by no means merely the story of regional development since the book has a wider appeal; a number of the articles are concerned with the links with America and with the place of Wales in the Atlantic economy. Amongst the authors are the late Sir Lewis Namier and some of the leading writers on the history of modern Wales including Brinley Thomas and A. H. Dodd.
